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Thalía Cervantes, the 14-year-old who learned how to play chess on the streets of Havana and is now one of the top young female players in the United States, has reached a new level of success.
For many children in Cape Town’s suburb of Old Crossroads in Nyanga, the entry fee into a chess competition could feed their ...
Young Indian chess players displayed remarkable talent at recent international tournaments. At the World Cadet Chess Cup in ...
English chess is set to get a funding boost to help foster young talent. Bloomberg has reported, external that the government is to announce £500,000 of funding for the English Chess Federation ...
Last year she won the Tata Steel Chess India blitz title after beginning her campaign as the tenth seed in a field of ten. And she is only 18. She is indeed the most promising player in women’s ...
A young Chinese woman becoming the youngest world chess champion is the perfect opportunity to air wildly unsubstantiated theories about women’s genetic tendencies. Wait, what? Hou Yifan, 16 ...
Anya Taylor-Joy's Beth Harmon may have inspired viewers, but she is not based on a real person. While Harmon is merely a product of fiction, she is the culmination of different female chess ...
In the battle of the sexes, you might think chess would be a level playing field. Sixty-four squares, 16 pieces each – the same rules for men and women.
The Grandmaster Experiment How did one family produce three of the most successful female chess champions ever? By Carlin Flora published July 1, 2005 - last reviewed on June 9, 2016 ...