1. Homeless boy wins New York State chess championship: 'I want to be the youngest grandmaster'  USA TODAY
2. Tani Adewumi, homeless refugee in 3rd grade, takes chess world by storm: "It's deep thinking"  CBS News
3. Homeless 8-year-old refugee wins New York State chess championship, inspiring viral fundraiser  Yahoo Finance
4. Homeless 8-year-old boy wins New York State chess championship  AOL
5. More Than $100K Raised on GoFundMe to Buy House for Homeless 8-Year-Old Chess Champ and Family  Complex
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A Webster University chess coach will today become the youngest woman to be inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame. Susan Polgár was the first woman to.

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Chess players from all over the Lowveld donned their thinking caps to participate in the Uplands Open chess tournament at Uplands Prep last Saturday.

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PanARMENIANNet - Eight Armenian chess players will participate in the European Individual Championship set to launch in Skopje Macedonia on Monday ...

The super grandmaster Maxime Vachier-Lagrave will try to stand atop one of Chess.com's most prestigious leaderboards in an effort to break the Puzzle Rush ...

The awesome Dota 2 custom map Dota Auto Chess is on its way to mobile as a totally standalone release, developer Drodo Games has announced.

A fine combination by Aleksandr Lenderman was part of the USA's upset victory against China in round two of the World Team Championship in Astana, ...

March's Titled Tuesday event featured 396 titled players (just shy of February's 400-plus record) competing for cash and glory. The top seed was Hikaru ...

In a room of the Povinelli house, there is a bookcase full of trophies from various chess tournaments. These trophies were won by Braydon Povinelli.

Team France will have to expect the unexpected in next week's Team Chess Battle against the USA. Ahead of the anticipated battle on March 15, IM Daniel ...

Pawnbarian is a clever little entry in the latest 7 Day Roguelike Challenge. A blend of deck-building strategy and classic chess rules, with tentacle monsters.

With interest soaring in machine learning and its role in all kinds of games, chess will be in the spotlight at the prestigious MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference ...

The reigning, defending Chess.com Computer Chess champion Stockfish will once again put its title on the line in a clash with the upstart machine-learning ...

Jan-Krzysztof Duda leads the Prague International Chess Festival masters with 3.5/5, ahead of Nikita Vitiugov and Radoslaw Wojtaszek. The Czech capital is ...

Director Andrew Bujalski's visit to campus continues with this 2013 Wisconsin Film Festival favorite.

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HAIL: The first Hail International Rapid Chess Championship, organized by the Saudi Chess Federation and the Hail Chamber of Commerce and Industry, ...

The recently concluded Tata Steel chess tournament was very memorable for the U.S. grandmaster Sam Shankland. From now on he will be forever ...

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Dota Auto Chess is coming to Mobile and not bringing Dota with it!

Collegiate chess has exploded in America in the past 10 years — especially in Missouri. When Webster University started its chess program, it instantly.

Parents, coaches and eager, young chess masters crowded into the halls, patios and conference rooms of the Hyatt Regency Valencia for the annual Southern ...

Siddhant Bharti of Mumbai suburban and Swadha Datir of Yavatmal claimed the title in the Maharashtra state selection under-7 open chess championship at ...

Tags allow us to label each puzzle in Tactics Trainer with one or more tactical motifs (types of tactics) commonly encountered in chess. Understanding these ...

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave tells David Cox about his chess origins, the state of elite chess and his world championship ambitions. 2019 is all about unfinished ...

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It took Jacob Nathan just six moves to win a recent chess match.

I wonder why sports such as synchronized swimming and dressage are included in the Olympics. It's hard to keep a straight face watching the former, with all ...

Chess player Babatunde Onakoya is using the game to educate children in Nigerian slum communities.

The West Louisville Chess Club is prepping for a big regional competition.

Today we're proud to announce that chess24 has merged with Play Magnus, the Norwegian company behind a family of apps building on the brand of Wo...

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As the Computer Chess Championship moves into its next stage, an exciting new feature gives viewers the ability to predict each game's results to win cash and ...

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The Department of English and Foreign Languages of Grambling State University is sponsoring A Round-Robin Chess Tournament for the Grambling ...

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Young Kings and Queens Chess Club and Mentoring program held a chess tournament and victory party for youth this President's Day,

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In an update to a story that Chess.com broke last year, a nationally-recognized chess team from Texas may now face multiple disciplinary actions after the US ...

Elizabeth Spiegel is a public school chess teacher in Brooklyn, New York. Her program at IS 318 was the subject of the 2012 documentary film "Brooklyn Castle".

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A year late, Metcalf Middle School in Burnsville will secure its 20th national team chess title if findings of cheating by a rival school stand.

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