To understand why we shouldn’t have women’s chess tournaments requires a deeper look into why they exist in the first place. Official tournaments have two sections: mixed-gender and female.

Only seven per cent of active Australian players on the World Chess Federation rating list are female with just one included in the top 10 players in the world. So why aren't girls attracted to chess?

40 chess players of all ages faced off in a speed chess tournament Sunday. The first in-person tournament for Play! Hoboken.

When is a grandmaster’s title less than grand?Chess grandmasters are not made in a day. Even the brightest talents need years to earn the highest and most coveted title in the game. To achieve ...

The Seedy Chess World of ‘Queens Gambit’ Is the Show’s Masterstroke Puke, grandmaster meltdowns and scandals only scratch the surface of the world 'The Queen's Gambit' portrays.

With chess gaining traction in Las Cruces, the school district hosts tournaments to let students compete.

On May 29, the world’s top 16 chess players competed in the FTX Crypto Cup. Hundreds of thousands of fans tuned in to Chess24.com, Twitch, YouTube and the Champions Chess Tour website to watch their ...

But opportunity shouldn’t require a perfect alignment of the stars. Winning state chess tournaments is not a scalable solution to child homelessness.

Even by the standards of chess prodigies, Hou Yifan stood out. It wasn’t so much the way she played the game—dynamically but not dazzlingly, with an aggressive but flexible style. It was that ...

Tanitoluwa "Tani" Adewumi, who once lived in a New York City homeless shelter, has achieved a remarkable title for someone his age: chess master.

Doha: Birla Public School (BPS) has organised an online series of Chess tournaments for its all grade-school students. School Principal A P Sharma inaugurated the tournament on its opening day ...

Manny, a student at Monte Vista Elementary in Las Cruces, is New Mexico's 2021 elementary school chess champion, headed to New Jersey in July for the John D. Rockefeller III National Tournament.