"It's now cool to play chess," says Shahade ... so hard that her fingers left red marks on her cheeks. She squirmed in her seat and twisted her feet in her black boots. There was no defense ...

Discover the legendary sacrifices made by some of the greatest chess players in history, including Mikhail Tal, Nezhmetdinov, ...

crisscross back in black and gold is tantalising enough. IMAGE: In the swirly ocean-hued co-ord set is she vying to become a 21st century Caissa, the patron nymph of chess?

I have three chess puzzles ... by any queen. If you want to play around with configurations on a digital board, I’ve set one up here, cordoning off a five-by-five region with black pawns.

And watch the queen, wielding a Gatling gun and hurling ... a domain of pure and unhinged creativity. Dunsany's chess, meanwhile, arms Black with a traditional setup but equips White with a ...

There’s no doubt the Netflix series, "The Queen’s Gambit", made chess cool. The fictional tale of chess phenom Beth Harmon, who was launched on the road to stardom by school janitor Mr ...