Chess master Nigel Short thinks we should simply accept that men's brains may be wired better for chess than women's. As he told New in Chess magazine, "Rather than fretting about inequality, perhaps ...

Tianhui “Cindy” Jie, 16, is a junior at Buchholz High School, and her love for the game of chess began at the age of 6. That love has endured, brought her a multitude of awards and recognitions, and ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A little piece of downtown West Palm Beach is getting national attention. The Fern Street Chess Park is now the star of the cover for American Chess Magazine. American Chess ...

Chess Review is a U.S. chess magazine that was published from January 1933 until October 1969 (Volume 37 Number 10). Until April 1941 it was called The Chess Review. Published in New York, it began on ...

Chess holds a unique allure. The tension between strategy and impulse, risk and loss, all set to the beat of a ticking clock. It’s universally hypnotic to watch a chess match unfold, and a bit ...

Eleven years ago, the university of Texas at Dallas had a problem. It needed to attract better students—“brilliant students” in the words of then president Franklin Jennifer. Tim Redman, a professor ...

Madison’s Awonder Liang was a globetrotting chess champion before he was a teenager — winning the 2011 World Youth Chess Championship in Brazil at age 8. On returning, he gave his first national ...

In November of 2020, I sent a direct message on Twitter to a British man named Phil Makepeace. “Hi!” I wrote. “I need a chess coach! Are you the person to talk to?” I knew that Phil was a professional ...