A famous chess club in a slum of Uganda's capital that became the focus of the Hollywood movie Queen of Katwe is still producing champions - but faces a daily struggle to survive. Run by chess ...

In the Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit,” the character Benny Watts walks up to Beth Harmon, the show’s heroine, at the start of the 1967 United States Chess Championship.

Linda Diaz, who won this year's Tiny Desk Contest at NPR Music, is a chess expert and international chess champion. She sat down to talk with us about the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit.

These schools reflect an increased interest in chess that began in 2020, credited in part to Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit.Chess hadn’t seen this level of popularity since the 1972 World ...

An unorthodox chess move known as the "Bongcloud" has surged in popularity after reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen used it in a competitive match on March 15, amusing spectators and his ...

The 'Queen Never Cry' or 'Queen Don’t Cry' meme originally comes from the Korean webcomic ‘The Ki Sisters’. In this scene from ‘Chapter 34’ a nurse hands a newborn baby over to its mother.

In the game of chess, the queen has more freedom (mobility) on the chess board. In that sense, the queen is the most powerful piece. On the other hand, the king, that has more value because if you ...

Chess.com goes on to address why it thinks the popularity of the game has spiked so dramatically, to the extent that all but five days this month have set new records for active players and the ...

Chess is booming. A heady cocktail of Queen’s Gambit mania, pandemic boredom, and Twitch streaming has given the ancient board game more visibility than it’s had in a long, long time. It’s ...

A famous chess club in a slum of Uganda's capital that became the focus of the Hollywood movie Queen of Katwe is still producing champions - but faces a daily struggle to survive.