The Opening: Daily Chess News from First Look Chess
- No. of episodes
- 46
- Latest episode
- 2026-11-01
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Daily chess news in about five minutes: the results, the players and the decisions that matter to American chess, every morning.
The Opening is the audio edition of First Look Chess, a daily newsletter for players, organizers, coaches and serious fans. Each episode covers the top five stories of the day — the Olympiad and the world championship cycle, the US Championships and US Chess national events, norms and rating milestones, federation news and the business of chess — drawn from the newsletter's morning edition, with facts checked against sources before they are read.
The full edition, with links, games and PGNs to download, is available for subscribers at firstlookchess.com.
Read by a synthetic voice. Powered by AI, guided by human expertise.
(Note: Some names will be mispronounced at first; we fix each one as we hear it.)