Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The thing which really helped her and gave her an avenue was chess.com,” Lewis told Deadline. “It was taken up by a whole new ...

INDIO, Calif. — Chess, Dejan Joveljic says, is all about thinking ahead, being patient and working the board to your advantage. And if you do all that correctly and in concert, you can bend an ...

When 17-year-old Griffin McConnell was named national chess master in March, it was a major achievement — especially since he earned the prestigious title after undergoing his fourth brain surgery ...

On the Friday evening of Dec. 8, New York native Justus Williams arrived at the Detroit Institute of Arts dressed to impress in a crisp black suit and brown dress shoes for his chess date with 50 ...

Bodhana Sivanandan attained the title after she beat a 60-year-old Grandmaster during a tournament in Liverpool, England, on Aug. 10 Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work ...

At 16, Ahraan Ansari is already the best chess player the Permian Basin has ever seen.

A scrappy group of Cuban-American community college students is poised to end the domination of collegiate chess by elite schools such as Harvard, Stanford and MIT. Cuba's national obsession with ...

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Saint Louis Chess Club is proud to announce the inaugural 2024 Saint Louis Masters, a premier chess event that will bring together up to 60 of the world’s top players ...

My older brother went to the school chess club at school in Minnesota where we live, so when I started first grade at the age of 6 I also started going too. I was drawn into the game and after a few ...

Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen resigned on-stream during his opponent’s second move in apparent protest of the ongoing chess cheating scandal. Reading time 4 minutes The 31-year-old Norwegian chess ...

A 10-year-old girl just became the youngest person ever to win the Woman International Master Title in chess. Bodhana Sivanandan, from London, took the title on Sunday, Aug. 10, at a tournament in ...