NEW YORK — 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 ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: “Plan to leave something behind so your name’ll live on / no matter what the game lives on,” says Nas on his 1999 album Nastradamus, and now the revered rapper is making some moves in a new ...

‘As a matter of fact, one can claim the greater Washington D.C. metropolitan area was the cradle for Black chess in America.” Local writer and two-time D.C. chess champion Gregory Kearse made that ...

A 19-year-old Black teenager has made chess history. According to the Black News, chess player Jessica Hyatt, 19, recently became the youngest African American woman to earn the National Master title.

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 ...

Hennessy VS is introducing the next evolution of its ongoing What’s Your Wild Rabbit campaign, which debuted in 2012, presenting a chess player’s journey to achieving grandmaster status. The first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The white-moves-first rule became standard in the late 1800s. Nupat Arjkla / EyeEm / Getty Images Johann Löwenthal, a British ...

Note: David R. Sands is taking the week off. The following is a reprint of a column that ran Feb. 22, 2022. “As a matter of fact, one can claim the greater Washington D.C. metropolitan area was the ...