Nona Gaprindashvili became the first woman Grandmaster in 1978 and a dominant world champion. The Netflix series The Queen’s ...
A documentary tells the story of the chess player who became the youngest grandmaster, male or female, in the history of the ...
A new documentary highlights the achievements of Judit Polgár, the greatest woman chess player ...
At a private home in Park City, Utah, Alec Baldwin sat across a chess board from Judit Polgár – he sighted, she blindfolded. Despite the visual disadvantage, it didn’t take long for Polgár to ...
Watching Queen of Chess, Rory Kennedy’s Netflix documentary about the top-ranked woman chess player and her long contest with world champion Garry Kasparov, I was reminded — of all things — of ...
The woman in black was Jennifer Shahade, 22, the 2002 U.S. Women’s Champion and the strongest American-born female chess player in history. Her opponent was 19-year-old Irina Krush, who immigrated to ...
Oregon’s first woman grandmaster in chess is 16-year-old Zoey Tang, a junior at Westview High School in Beaverton. “Woman grandmaster” is the highest chess title restricted to women that is awarded by ...
The woman in black was Jennifer Shahade, 22, the 2002 U.S. Women’s Champion and the strongest American-born female chess player in history. Her opponent was 19-year-old Irina Krush, who immigrated to ...