NEW YORK — Maurice Ashley, who became the first Black chess grandmaster in 1999, is using the game of chess to teach life lessons. Ashley fell in love with chess as a 14-year-old high school student ...

When Magnus Carlsen started playing chess at the age of eight, he grew up in “a hybrid generation,” mainly playing on the board, he tells Euronews Next in an interview. Fast forward 25 years and the ...

What happens if more domains of knowledge have superhuman performance from AI? The Elo (chess ranking estimate) of the best chess programs is about 3700 which is about 900 points beyond the 2881 ...

Hikaru Nakamura is an American chess grandmaster, streamer, and YouTuber. Nakamura has won many tournaments, represented the ...

A 10-year-old chess prodigy has made history as the youngest female player ever to defeat a grandmaster, which is the highest distinction any chess player can earn. Bodhana Sivanandan earned the ...

Oregon’s first woman grandmaster in chess is 16-year-old Zoey Tang, a junior at Westview High School in Beaverton. “Woman grandmaster” is the highest chess title restricted to women that is awarded by ...

Daniel Naroditsky, who rose to fame as a US chess grandmaster and popular YouTube chess commentator, has died aged 29, his family confirmed. Naroditsky’s family announced his “unexpected” death in a ...

"It really has taught me a lot of very important lessons about life and chess." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Last year the ...

A 10-year-old girl who started playing chess five years ago has made history by defeating a grandmaster, according to the International Chess Federation. Bodhana Sivanandan won against Peter Wells, a ...

Not everyone gets to meet their idols — or compete against them. When Alice Lee was growing up, she watched Irina Krush, the first woman to earn the title of Grandmaster while playing for the United ...

Perhaps it was his death that brought me back. A chessboard became the only place where I could still be near him. This time ...