The championship also highlighted the tournament’s broader educational and social role. Ninety-one participants were unrated ...

Beginning Sunday and lasting until July 24, 10 junior chess players will face off in the U.S. Junior Chess Championship. This year, Gainesville’s got a stake in the competition.

In September of 2022, Magnus Carlsen had won 53 consecutive classical chess matches.Then, he sat down across from Hans Niemann. Carlsen, then 32 and a five-time World Championship, was widely ...

Platform Schools has won the 2026 Ecobank National Schools’ Team Chess Championship for the third time. The Ipaja-based school went home with N2.5 million. Dayspring School, Oyo, finished second and ...

These African banks tested the limits of organic growth and prospered in 2025, but constraints force a strategic shift. Organic growth has been the mainstay of profitability for Africa’s top banks for ...

For some Bronx students, chess is more than a board game — it teaches them how to strategize. For 6-year-old Yianna Parra, a student at the Rosalyn Yalow Charter School, it’s competitive. “What I like ...

You’re reading The Sporting Scene, Louisa Thomas’s weekly look at the world of sports. When Gukesh Dommaraju was a small child growing up in Chennai, India, his parents wanted him to be an athlete.

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American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura was sitting at a chess board in Cyprus last week feeling absolutely stumped. The world’s No. 2 rated player, famous for his talents in speed chess, spent 67 ...

They’re all kings and queens! Students at the Rosalyn Yalow Charter School in the South Bronx — where 22% of pupils are homeless and nearly all are economically disadvantaged — just won a New York ...

CHICAGO, Ill. (KCBD) - The Frenship High School chess team made School history, placing among the top 20 teams at the USCF National Chess Tournament in Chicago this past weekend. Earlier this month, ...

Haaland has co-founded company Chess Mate Michael Regan/Getty Images Manchester City striker Erling Haaland has invested in a new world chess championship. The 25-year-old has co-founded the company ...