Sport is often romanticised as a space untouched by politics, a level playing field where preparation, talent and composure determine the outcome. Yet time and again, global events intrude upon this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sarah El Barbry became a chess streamer in 2025 and has more than 75,000 followers across platforms [BBC] During Covid, Nemo Zhou ...

The history of chess is filled with prodigies who seemed destined for greatness before they became adults. Interestingly, elite chess players spend thousands of hours training before they reach their ...

Judit Polgár was the No.1 ranked woman chess player in the world for over 25 years—from the age of 13 in 1989 till 2014 when she retired. She also became the youngest chess grandmaster (GM) at the age ...

Shreyas became Britain's youngest Chess Grandmaster at the age of 15 In a silent school hall on the Isle of Wight the air is thick with tension. Faces twitch nervously, feet shake vigorously under ...

SAINT LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 2026 American Cup, hosted by the Saint Louis Chess Club (STLCC) at its newly expanded and recently reopened facility, will return March 2–13, 2026, continuing its ...

Daniel Naroditsky competes in a chess tournament in New York in December 2024. (Lennart Ootes / Getty Images) A recent medical examiner's report revealed the probable cause of death for 29-year-old ...

Daniel Naroditsky, one of the world’s greatest chess champions and a coach at the Charlotte Chess Center, died of cardiac arrhythmia, or an abnormal heartbeat, after ingesting methamphetamine and ...

With the penny going away, what should you do with the ones in your coin jar? Trainor tells haters she 'Still Don't Care,' with new album and tour Inside GM's new world headquarters: Modernized ...

Chess is a relatively simple game to learn but a very difficult one to master. Because the starting positions of the pieces are fixed, top players have relied on memorizing the "best" opening moves, ...

While we may be used to the spectator sports of Bloomsday, Hoopfest or Gonzaga basketball, the halls of the Spokane Convention Center are giving way this weekend to something a little less... loud.