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For the first time, K-12 students and adults will participate in an open chess tournament through the Rapid City Scholastic Chess Club.The club will hold its first open tournament from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 19…

CHICO — The next Bobby Fischer could have been among more than 80 kindergarten through high school students who gathered at Neal Dow Elementary School on Wednesday for a chess tournament. The tournament was organized by the Sacramento…

(Photo courtesy of GRCC Chess Club Facebook) Grand Rapids Community College has many student organizations that you can join and participate in. One such group, if you like strategy, is the GRCC Chess Club. The GRCC Chess…

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CHAZY — For about an hour a week, about two dozen students from Chazy Central Rural School gather in science…

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — During Black History Month, the Inner City Chess Club is using the game to teach life lessons, but also to change the narrative by showing Indianapolis kids that chess is a game for all. Two…

Chess players play at the free chess club on Telegraph Avenue. 1 credit Community chess games on Telegraph Avenue are suspended due to safety concerns after organizer Jesse Sheehan was injured trying to restrain a man who…

SIOUX CENTER—Kings eluded capture as pawns paraded on chessboards set up at the Sioux Center Public Library…

The Richmond and Twickenham Chess Club has returned to the Adelaide Inn on Park Road, Teddington, after 120 years. The club, formerly known as Twickenham Chess Club, reopened on January 4, after decades of moving and two months without a…

The newly revamped Rook & Bishop Chess Club allows students to learn the game or competeCourtesy of FlickrMembers of the Rook & Bishop Chess Club at Wake Forest University prepare for an upcoming intercollegiate competition.While…

Student teams from across Mississippi gathered in Scott County this past weekend to compete for state chess championships and opportunities to represent the state in national competitions.…

Larry Richmond has played chess since a young age, but said he was proud…

LINCOLN PARK - In some ways Avi Kaplan isn't much different from most 14-year-olds. A freshman at Lane Tech College Prep, he enjoys playing basketball and baseball, and he loves to cook. However, most of Kaplan's spare time is spent…

But it's not the only sport or hobby enjoying such momentum. In October 2020, The Queen's Gambit became a hit on Netflix, based on the 1983 novel about a female chess prodigy, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, who becomes the world's greatest…

CORBIN - The Corbin School of Innovation continues to find ways to…

Colm Smyth restarted St George's Chess Club two years ago. Photo/Mike TweedMembers of the St George's School Chess Club were in full battle on Tuesday morning, against opponents thousands of miles away. Professor Colm Smyth, from…

WEST POINT - Chance Dumas rested his head on his hands, staring intently at the board with a look as serious as any second grader can get. Playing black, he deliberately moved his bishop diagonally across the board to capture an…

Peter Close, the president of the Caroline's Chess Club and a junior at UNC-Chapel Hill, first became interested in chess while a student at Wake Tech and began watching live streams from Chess.com on Twitch.“It's a very good game,” said…

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FOR JACOB EMERT, the Netflix chess-themed hit drama "The Queen's Gambit" was more than entertainment. It was an inspiration. "That's what drove me to this, and I've been playing nonstop ever since," he told me during a break at a…

Kyle Red Willow remembers years ago when his father taught him to play chess at the age of 5.“My father, who passed away, taught me chess when I was 5,” he said. “So I taught my son Conrad to play when he was about 5 years…

Landon Dobbs, 11, decided on his own to learn to play chess. The schoolboy went online and watched videos…

Interest in the sport has skyrocketed due to the downtime many people experienced during the pandemic and the popularity of the Netflix show "The Queen's Gambit" ST. LOUIS - Sunday was the last day of an…

BROOKFIELD, Wisconsin - The video game world has shifted from board games to video games in recent years, especially with the rise of esports competition. A Brookfield-area high school junior found herself focusing on a classic. When…

Chess is an individual game, with the chessboard acting as a battleground between two calculating minds using wit and strategy, both striving to gain the upper hand. Nonetheless, the Staples chess team found an advantage in their…

PARMA, Ohio - In a year when everyone was learning chess by watching the popular Netflix series "The Queen's Gambit," Gerald Belfer, a longtime lover of the popular board game, coincidentally thought to involve more people.The two worlds…

A spectator at a chess match allegedly claimed that one of the players was looking at his partner and after an argument stabbed him to death as well as the other player who tried to interveneThe chess board after a match led to a double…

Using his laptop's touchpad to move his knight to C3, senior Don Therkildsen completes the Sicilian Ddefense. Sophomore Thomas Zieger exchanges a few words with Therkildsen on Zoom before making his gesture in…

Participants in Detective Cookie's Chess Club carefully choose their next move. Courtesy picture. By Airik Myers, The Seattle Medium When it comes to community policing in Seattle, one name comes to mind - Det. Biscuit. Denise…

Want to play a game that stimulates your brain? Chess not only requires intense concentration, but it also helps improve your memory and deepen your concentration as you play. If you've been too intimidated to play chess in the…

MADISON — The school year-opening tournament and an all-girls gathering will soon kick off this season's chess excitement in Madison. The 2021 Summer Knights School Chess Tournament will be the first all-around of the 2021-2022…

Chess fanatics in the Co Tyrone area have been busy in recent months with the establishment of a large outdoor chess club in the Washingbay. Residents of Derrytresk and surrounding areas have become involved in the activity of the!-->…

Chess as a game of strategy and intelligence has long been considered a game of thinking. It's a wonderful game to play anytime, anywhere and with almost anyone. July 20 has arrived and for those who don't know, it's…

Every year 20e July marks the celebration of International Chess Day in honor of the founding of the International Chess Federation (FIDE). The motto for International Chess Day 2021 is 'teach someone to play chess'. It is an…

Chess as a game of strategy and intelligence has long been considered a game of thinking. It's a wonderful game to play anytime, anywhere and with almost anyone. July 20 has arrived and for those who don't know, it's International Chess…

community, A grandfather from Albury has welcomed a new children's chess club, after his granddaughter couldn't find a playing partner her age. Albury PCYC launched its first-ever chess club on Wednesday afternoon for children aged 5-12.…

When Chris Donovan saw the chessboard inserts in the new tables Medford purchased for the renovated Riverside Park, it sparked happy memories of taking his son to Harvard Square where chess players congregated.Although purchasing the table…

With the coronavirus outbreak last year, many sporting activities around the world were postponed or stopped. Amid the tough times, many athletes have taken up different activities that have kept their momentum going during the lockdown.…

CHENNAI: Five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand said on Monday that the career span of players has become shorter than before due to the high level of hard work resulting from intense competition. He said the level of "physical…

Chess Kerala is holding online tournaments to raise funds for the state's COVID-19 vaccination campaign In a winning move, Chess Kerala, a collective of players from Kerala, is now organizing Chess Kerala Grand Prix Tournaments COVID…

WUHSD_CHESS1: Whittier High School Correspondence Chess Players left to right: Isabel Luna, Soledad DeAguayo, Mary Lusinyan, Sadie Cruz, Sophia Reyna, Amanda Guevara and Samantha Silva. Not pictured: Ena Pejovski. WHITTIER - When…

The story begins in 2016, when Vincent Bolloré decided he wanted his French company, Vivendi, to rescue Italian company Mediaset Premium from Silvio Berlusconi, a financially troubled pay-TV service. Among other companies, Vivendi owns…

The queen may be the strongest piece in chess, but sometimes it feels like few women outside of the fictional Beth Harmon seem to play the game. In the United States, for example, only about A seventh of the members…

At first glance, having a game of chess without letting the player play chess seems like a bit of a crazy idea. But in the minds of those at QUByte Interactive, it obviously works. After its first release on PC, it's now…

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It seems an unlikely candidate for huge TV success but, according to streaming giant Netflix, The Queen's Gambit has become its most-watched limited series of all time.Key points:The Queen's Gambit is the most-watched series on NetflixThe…

Warning: major spoilers ahead for the end of The Queen's Bet. Ask anyone with a Netflix connection, and they'll tell you that the sexiest and most exciting TV show of the year is about competitive chess, though it's unclear if that's down…

The following contains spoilers for Netflix's limited series ending, The Queen's Bet. That Beth Harmon, the Bobby Fischer chess prodigy The Queen's Bet— finishes the series in the lead, beating Vasily Borgov in Russia at the Fischer…

The stars also play chess In 1988, Erik Estrada was a celebrity, having portrayed Highway Patrol Officer Frank Poncherello in the hit television series Fries from 1977 to 1983. Estrada and seven other…

Members of the Penrose family have made great contributions to different fields of science. Mathematician, physicist and scientific philosopher Roger Penrose has just received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his…

Breadcrumb Links Saskatchewan Local news “Five or ten years ago, chess tournaments didn't exist in Saskatchewan, or if they did, nobody knew about them. Author of the article: Lynn giesbrecht • Regina Chief…

MLK Classic Chess Tournament Premiere Section Winners: Alabama State Champion Scott Varagona, Calera, Terrence Edinburg, Montgomery and Kevin Wang, Atlanta. Both adult and school chess players participated in the one-day event. The annual…