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To his competitors, Joseph Francis was considered something of a chess prodigy. He can’t count how many games he’s played, but he knows he’s won the vast majority of them. He said: “I ended up playing ...

Susan Polgar, a chess grandmaster, will be playing 50 artists, critics and fans of Marcel Duchamp at the same time, in honor of his birthday, July 28. By Deborah Solomon See more of our coverage in ...

Maybe you were one of the many people who began playing chess because you watched The Queen’s Gambit during the pandemic. Or maybe you attempted to play chess and realized: oh yeah, chess is actually ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A young boy wearing his sun hat takes part in ChessFest, the UK’s largest one-day chess event, at Trafalgar Square in central ...

Harrow schoolgirl eclipses legend Judit Polgar’s mark as youngest girl ever to defeat a grandmaster rated above 2600, then draws with a former 2700 England’s 11-year-old talent Bodhana Sivanandan ...

Two of the top four chess nations will go head to head in Miami on 27-28 July The USA and Uzbekistan are among the world’s current four best chess teams, along with India and China, so the ...