The evolution of the chess queen finds a parallel in rural India, where the “Checkmate Betul” initiative, launched by US-based Avika Shukla, offers free, structured chess training to girls with no ...

A regular player challenges a chess master - but the real question is: how long can he survive? We test reactions, traps, and pure speed to see how quickly a master can force checkmate.

Chris Hemsworth, Alzheimer's and why Hollywood is suddenly obsessed with caregiving Oregon girls who protested trans athlete at track and field medal podium score legal win in lawsuit New pyramid ...

South Oak Cliff High School is known for excellence on the football field, but there's another activity where students excel...chess. "We're on the football team, we're also on the basketball team," ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Daniel Naroditsky, the American chess grandmaster and streamer who cultivated the game’s digital renaissance, ...

CHENNAI: For over two weeks in Singapore at the World Championships last November and December, GM Daniel Naroditsky had inadvertently become my eyes and ears. I had covered elite chess before but ...

Daniel Naroditsky, a chess prodigy-turned-grandmaster who helped bring the centuries-old game into the digital age through livestreams and online lessons, has died at 29. Naroditsky was considered one ...

When Chess.com launched back in 2007, its co-founders had a few starting advantages: a lifelong love of the game, two prior companies they’d exited a year before, and one very good domain name that ...

Pawn pushers at a couple of low-stakes chess tournaments in Iowa and Louisiana recently sat down at their boards only to discover a surprising competitor: one of the highest rated chess players ever ...

Chess pieces are assembled on a board at the Albany Chess Center on Sept. 19 in Colonie. Founder John Oyeyemi Fawole and his team operate the center seven days a week and run programming not just at ...