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How chess helped me understand grief

Perhaps it was his death that brought me back. A chessboard became the only place where I could still be near him. This time ...
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 ...
Checkmate, the Media Chess Club, welcomed a grandmaster chess champion on Tuesday night. Three-time U.S. Champion International Grandmaster Larry Christiansen visited Christiansen the group for an ...
At age 21, Serbian chess player Luka Budisavljević is the youngest grandmaster in his country’s history. A grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can achieve, besides world champion, and ...
Daniel Naroditsky, a 29-year-old standard-bearer in the world of competitive speed chess that flourished in the COVID-19 pandemic, died over the weekend and leaves behind a legacy as one of the greats ...
Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster who started as a child prodigy and quickly became one of the most influential American voices in the sport, died Monday. He was 29. The Charlotte Chess Center in ...