It’s like holding a plank while playing chess.” He began sailing at age 11 during summer camps in California, but only fully ...

Chess played at schools tournaments is taking off in Mayo and indeed the whole country. Over the past few weeks, the halls of Aghamore, Balla, Knockmore, Garrymore, have been buzzing with the focus ...

The former US women’s champion Jennifer Shahade changed her life and her sport when she made allegations against a grandmaster. Now, she tells Donald McRae, she has turned her hand to writing and poke ...

Jamshedpur: Adhiraj Mitra, a student of Loyola School, was felicitated by Chief Minister Hemant Soren following his historic gold medal win at the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2025.

Tunde Onakoya, the celebrated Nigerian chess master known for his global marathon record, recently visited Madrid to present a custom-made chessboard to ...

Judit Polgár was the No.1 ranked woman chess player in the world for over 25 years—from the age of 13 in 1989 till 2014 when she retired. She also became the youngest chess grandmaster (GM) at the age ...

Among elite chess grandmasters, more than 70% of competitions end in ties. And that is just conventional "over the board" chess; in the growing realm of online competition known as "correspondence ...

American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky died last year after suffering an abnormal heartbeat and had multiple drugs in his system at the time, according to a toxicology report that ruled the ...

Jackson Academy students participating in the After School Chess Club are competing—and winning—at tournaments across the state. Three JA teams competed in the 2025 Mississippi Scholastic Team ...

Indian Grandmasters SL Narayanan and Diptayan Ghosh advanced in the FIDE World Cup 2025 after dominating performances. Aronyak Ghosh joined them following a decisive win. Despite tough competition, ...

South Oak Cliff High School is known for excellence on the football field, but there's another activity where students excel...chess. "We're on the football team, we're also on the basketball team," ...