If you're a fan of the show "The Queen's Gambit," there's a chess event in Lincoln you should check out.The Nebraska Hall of Fame Chess Celebration is honoring the state's rich history in the game.

On the Friday evening of Dec. 8, New York native Justus Williams arrived at the Detroit Institute of Arts dressed to impress in a crisp black suit and brown dress shoes for his chess date with 50 ...

Not everyone gets to meet their idols — or compete against them. When Alice Lee was growing up, she watched Irina Krush, the first woman to earn the title of Grandmaster while playing for the United ...

“The Iranians don’t play backgammon, they play chess and in fact they invented the game,” Barak, himself an avid chess player, said in an interview with Haaretz newspaper, referring to Iran’s nuclear ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Nate Solon will be a marked man on more than two dozen chess boards come Saturday. In what’s billed as a first-of-its-kind event here in Omaha, Solon will take on 25 different ...

You first met Avi Kaplan on these pages in 2022. Then a 15-year-old freshman at Lane Tech College Prep, Kaplan had finished second among ninth-graders at the U.S. Chess Federation's National K-12 ...