When 17-year-old Griffin McConnell was named national chess master in March, it was a major achievement — especially since he earned the prestigious title after undergoing his fourth brain surgery ...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A chess champion from Brooklyn who's only 15 years old has been awarded a $40,000 college scholarship. Jessica Hyatt is one of the top 10 Black female chess players in the ...
Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died. He was 64. Fischer died Thursday ...
Do you fancy yourself a quick learner? Well, good for you, but prepare to feel woefully inadequate after reading about a young man named Max Deutsch. So confident in his skills to pick things up ...
Decades after crushing it in international tourneys, this CEO still draws on his 3-step thought process behind every chess move to run his international tech company. Years before the notion of ...
Viswanathan Anand, a five-time World Champion, will return to the Tata Steel Chess India tournament from January 7 to 11, ...
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My older brother went to the school chess club at school in Minnesota where we live, so when I started first grade at the age of 6 I also started going too. I was drawn into the game and after a few ...
A 10-year-old who once lived in a New York City homeless shelter has achieved a remarkable title for someone his age: chess master. Tanitoluwa "Tani" Adewumi became America's newest chess master on ...
Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a 10-year-old in New York, just became the country's newest national chess master. At the Fairfield County Chess Club Championship tournament in Connecticut on May 1, Adewumi won ...