Maurice Ashley, who became the first Black chess grandmaster in 1999, is using the game of chess to teach life lessons. Ashley fell in love with chess as a 14-year-old high school student after ...
Rochelle Ballantyne, a New York lawyer, is pursuing her dream of becoming the first Black female chess master. Ballantyne said she has been trying to reach her goal for over a decade. Reuters reported ...
Judit Polgár won the very first chess tournament she ever played in. She was 6 years old. The Hungarian-born prodigy's impressive rise to chess stardom, which included becoming the world's top-ranked ...
On 18 November 1844, the Washington Chess Club challenged its counterparts in Baltimore to a match. Two teams were organized, and at 4 p.m. on 26 November, the first game commenced with three ...
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