The history of how the queen became the most powerful piece in chess. By Daniel Naroditsky The queen is known as the most powerful piece on the chess board, so the prospect of sacrificing it ...

Chess is booming. A heady cocktail of Queen’s Gambit mania ... has spawned a fascinating meme culture centred on the humour of making terrible blunders when you thought you were winning.

Even now, months later, traffic has declined, but it’s still 10 times higher than the first chess boom, when The Queen’s Gambit came out in 2020. “All kids across all high schools [and ...

It acknowledges that things like The Queen's Gambit and lockdown had ... Mittens is rapidly becoming Chess.com's own homegrown meme. It's a chess AI with a cute cat avatar that will beat your ...

They shook hands, and the woman in the white wig began by confidently advancing her queen pawn two squares and depressing the chess timer next to the board. The crowd nodded approvingly.

“We were here first!” she says, only half-jokingly. Priore, 21, is the founder, president, and CEO of The Queen’s Gambit Chess Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which aims to build ...

An 11-year-old girl from Colombia is living her American dream, becoming a chess queen on her way to attaining master status despite learning the game just this year. Since arriving in New York ...