A famous chess club in a slum of Uganda's capital that became the focus of the Hollywood movie Queen of Katwe is still ...

"I became fascinated with the chess queen as an icon of female power. How did she come to dominate the chess board when in real life women are almost always in a position of second power." wrote ...

To be fair, chess even today remains a male-predominant pastime, with semi-active Chinese GM Hou Yifan, the world’s highest rated woman, coming in at No. 126 on the latest FIDE world rankings.

Home Lifestyle Chess: The Power Of Zugzwang And Stalemate. ... Black King on e8 also prevents the White’s King from coming up to d7 or d8, from where it could enable the e7 pawn to Queen.

Chess is a board game that’s played between two opponents. The game is conducted on an 8x8 checkered board with 16 pieces per ...

Which chess piece power should you choose in Blue Prince? ... Pawn: When you reach Rank 8 each day, you may choose Knight, Bishop, Rook or Queen. Gain the power of that piece until the end of the day.

The Queen can be found in the Study, as well as Her Ladyship's Chamber. Once you've drafted one of each of the aforementioned rooms, ... Choosing Your Chess Power.

"It's now cool to play chess," says Shahade (in black). In March, she and Irina Krush (in white) vied at an art gallery benefit for the U.S. Women's Chess Olympiad Team. Mig Greengard, ChessNinja ...

On being in Valencia during the city’s celebration to mark 550 years of modern chess and catching up with grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand there ...

For 11-year-old chess prodigy Reyaansh Chakrabarty, the hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit sparked a love for the game that now takes him around the world on a quest to become Australia’s first world ...

The enhanced abilities of the chess queen to move any number of squares vertically, horizontally, or diagonally reflected these historical shifts and symbolized the increasing recognition of women’s ...

Ferguson suddenly sacrificed his queen, throwing her deep into enemy territory to check Berg’s king. Bob Ferguson on the campus of University of Washington in 1987. Northwest Chess magazine ...