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Susquehanna Swap: A New Chess Variant

December 9, 2024 by Ella

High level chess players spend significant time studying opening theory, endgame theory, and core strategic principles under a consistent rule set. An exciting way to change the game is by playing with variants, which are alterations to standard chess rules. Variants intentionally shake up existing patterns, reducing the value of...

Susquehanna at FIDE Corporate Chess Championship

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A Recap of Susquehanna’s Performance at the World Corporate Chess Championship

August 19, 2024 by Ella

Susquehanna recently competed in the World Corporate Chess Championship. The tournament – run by FIDE, the governing body of international chess competition – brought participants from over 350 companies across 55 countries to compete to be considered the “smartest company in the world.” Teams were required to have at least...

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SIG Sponsors World’s Largest Collegiate Chess League

September 14, 2023 by Emily

We are excited to announce that SIG is the Presenting Sponsor for Chess.com’s Collegiate Chess League (CCL) and their College Ambassador Program, helping to grow the game on campuses across the U.S. and beyond. Universities from around the world compete in Chess.com’s prestigious CCL tournament. Through this partnership, we hope to...

Q&A With SIG Trading Intern Andrew Tang aka penguingm1

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Q+A with Bullet Chess Player and SIG Trading Intern, Andrew Tang

August 29, 2022 by Emily

Andrew Tang is known online as “penguingm1” and is widely regarded as one of the top bullet chess players. Andrew joined SIG this summer as a Trading Intern in our Bala Cynwyd office. Hi Andrew! We’re so excited to have you interning with us this summer. Can you tell us...

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Ladies Knight Podcast Appearance

February 11, 2022 by Ella

As part of SIG’s sponsorship of U.S. Chess, I recently joined Jennifer Shahade, two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, on her chess podcast, Ladies Knight. Tune in to hear our conversation, where we talk about gender in chess, rating distribution, differences between human chess players and AI chess players and how...

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Crucial Games and Tactics for SIG’s 1st Place NACCL Chess Team

June 7, 2021 by Justin B.

Over 6 Thursdays in late January and February, the inaugural online North American Corporate Chess League took place, with over 400 players and 40 teams competing on lichess.org. The league awarded prizes to both the top 15 individuals and the top 5 teams, with each team’s score equal to the...

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The Intersection of Poker + Chess

June 1, 2021 by Bill

Bill Chen, two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, co-author of The Mathematics of Poker, an expert-level chess player, and a quantitative researcher at SIG, shares his thoughts on the overlap between poker and chess.

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Meet SIG’s 1st Place NACCL Chess Team

February 26, 2021 by Nicole

Over the past six weeks, SIG’s chess team has been competing in the North American Corporate Chess League’s first online tournament. This online league brought together teams from 43 companies across North America and allowed for chess players of all skill levels to engage in some friendly competition, as they...

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SIG Wins US Amateur Team East Chess Tournament

March 4, 2020 by Eric

Team “SIG Calls” scored a perfect 6-0 to win the US Amateur Team East in a field of over 300 teams. They edged out “Princeton Clementine” in the final round to steal the victory and avenge last year’s loss to “Princeton Orange”. Board 1: IM Atulya led the team with...

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Highlights from the 2019 U.S. Amateur Team East Chess Tournament

August 16, 2019 by Eric

The 2019 edition of the U.S. Amateur Team East chess tournament took place February 16-18 in Parsippany, NJ. Over 300 teams competed for the bragging rights that come with being USATE champions. SIG was able to field a competitive team this year, “Masters of the Exchange,” with team members Stas,...