Antonis Loudaros, a longtime educator and chess coach who founded The Green School’s chess program nearly a decade ago, ...

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Rachel Reeves has been a keen chess player throughout her life but her credentials are now coming under scrutiny - Wenn/Alamy The Old French term “exchequer” comes from the chequered tablecloth on ...

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 ...

Chess has enjoyed a sharp rise in popularity in the 2020s. The spike began during COVID lockdowns and increased when Chess.com created its first PogChamps tournament on Twitch in 2020, which proved ...

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 ...

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Discover the legendary sacrifices made by some of the greatest chess players in history, including Mikhail Tal, Nezhmetdinov, Vassily Ivanchuk, Hikaru Nakamura, Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov, and ...

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