As a mild-mannered statistics professor, it's not often that I get contacted directly by the CEO of a multi-million-dollar ...

A famous chess academy in Katwe, a slum in Kampala, Uganda that set the stage for Lupita Nyong'o's 2016 Hollywood film Queen of Katwe, is struggling to stay afloat.The academy had hoped to receive ...

Jaden Fauske's much more than just a great baseball player, he's also an elite chess player, and a state scholar ...

A team of ten players from D Chess Academy, Imphal, led by coach Yambem Dhanabir Singh, left Imphal today to participate in the 1st Assam University International Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament ...

Created with ♥ by RumbleOver 200 competitors participated at the Good2Grow R&D Showdown and Invitational Chess Tournament at Campion College Auditorium on June 21, 2025.

For the Detroit City Chess Club, a history-making summer tournament in Toronto began with a December "cold call" to a welcoming person in Toronto.

Australian chess prodigy Reyaansh Chakrabarty is a FIDE master and hopes one day to become a grandmaster. Picture: Supplied He travels the world playing against top players in tournaments.

Chess is seeing a global resurgence, sparked by The Queen's Gambit and the pandemic impact on leisure time. India is an emerging power player, with 85 grandmasters and intense chess schools for youth.

At the Madras Chess Academy, children trickle in after school. They sit in a windowless room, surrounded by portraits of chess legends, including world champion Gukesh Dommaraju, once a student here.

GM Shyam Sundar's Chennai-based academy is making waves by producing elite chess prodigies, including India's 86th grandmaster Srihari LR and FIDE Junior World Champion Pranav V. Shyam's coaching ...

La Jolla High and academy in Azerbaijan partner in cross-cultural chess move The sister schools partnership is intended to provide students with opportunities for virtual exchanges, chess ...

Divi Bijesh is a nine-year-old chess prodigy from Thiruvananthapuram who sees 10 moves ahead in the geometry of sixty-four squares — knows when to castle out of ...