The True Story Behind Untold: Chess Mates

In its opening moments, Untold: Chess Mates contextualizes a cheating scandal that rocked the top tiers of competitive chess ...

Broadway’s 'Chess' Gets New Cast Recording Featuring Lea Michele—and Fans Are Already Buzzing

Featuring Glee alum Lea Michele alongside Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher, Chess was brought back to Broadway in late ...
PAROOL

5 of the best Amsterdam chess spots (according to European Blitz champion Eline Roebers)

Amsterdam local Eline Roebers (19) became the European Blitz Chess champion in January. She recommends five spots in Amsterdam where both aspiring players and grandmasters can try to put each other in ...
Hindustan Times

Why is the World Chess Champion, Gukesh, struggling? But he can make a comeback, here’s why!

The weight of the world title can break even the strongest of players. For 19-year-old D. Gukesh, the pressure recently reached a visible breaking point at the 2026 Prague Masters. Following a ...
Post and Courier

A 6-year-old phenom and a female champ. Charleston Chess Club’s still running gambits after 140 years.

CHARLESTON — When he was 3 years old, Sav Strickland played his first game of chess. He spotted a board while at a coffee shop with his dad and ran to grab it, begging to set it up. His father, ...
The New York Times

Chess With an Extra Dash of Excitement: A Female Star’s Story

Framed as a sports tale, “Queen of Chess,” directed by Rory Kennedy, recounts the life of Judit Polgar, who battled sexism as much as rival players. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for ...
Charlotte Observer

Autopsy reveals Charlotte chess master Daniel Naroditsky’s probable cause of death

Daniel Naroditsky, one of the world’s greatest chess champions and a coach at the Charlotte Chess Center, died of cardiac arrhythmia, or an abnormal heartbeat, after ingesting methamphetamine and ...
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Table slam at the World Chess Championship

With the penny going away, what should you do with the ones in your coin jar? Trainor tells haters she 'Still Don't Care,' with new album and tour Inside GM's new world headquarters: Modernized ...
Phys.org

Chess960's random setups still favor white, new study reveals

Chess is a relatively simple game to learn but a very difficult one to master. Because the starting positions of the pieces are fixed, top players have relied on memorizing the "best" opening moves, ...
Post and Courier

Columbia-based chess program expands to Charleston schools, aims to broaden who plays the game

NORTH CHARLESTON — On a recent fall afternoon, a group of students at Malcolm C. Hursey Montessori Elementary leaned over a chessboard, their eyes fixed on coach Susan Key as she pointed at each piece ...
KHQ

US Chess K-12 National Chess Championship takes over Spokane Convention Center this weekend

While we may be used to the spectator sports of Bloomsday, Hoopfest or Gonzaga basketball, the halls of the Spokane Convention Center are giving way this weekend to something a little less... loud.