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Established 75 years ago by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess, the record label focused primarily on black musicians and ...
Broadway audiences will get to see theater history made when Chess returns to the Imperial Theatre, 37 years after its ...
In Marottichal, every home has a chessboard – and two-thirds of residents play the game.
Learning chess at a young age, Paul quickly distinguished himself from the competition, and after winning the First American Chess Congress in 1857, he travelled to Europe and won every single match ...
1 of 4 | World Champion Chess champion Garry Kasparov plays against IBM's Deep Blue computer at the Association for Computing Chess Challenge on February 11, 1996, in Philadelphia. On May 11, 1997 ...
Both finished with 6½ out of seven. However, the real winners were the game of chess and its enthusiasts. A truly fabulous congress in an excellent venue. A huge thank you goes out from Basingstoke ...
On page 84 of the congress’s proceedings, it refers to one of the letters by citing “the advisableness of always giving the first move, in published games, to the player of the white pieces…” This ...
Champion chess player and Soviet dissident Garry Kasparov has a few thoughts about how well democracy in the U.S. is doing. He tells NPR's Scott Simon that it's not America first - it's America alone.
Rich McCormick, now a Republican member of Congress from Georgia, appeared in the “Chess” Marine recruiting ad from the 1990s. Photo via Rep. Rich McCormick’s Office/Screenshot via YouTube.
The congress will also feature the popular "Coffee Chess" concept, with a dedicated café. The event is open to families and players of all ages, with all junior entrants required to be born after ...
At 11, New Master Breaks Record Older Than She Is Annie Wang qualified as a master after winning the National Junior Chess Congress, but she might not hold the record for long.