chess

Rochelle Ballantyne navigates Marshall Chess Club in New York City like it’s her own home. With a hasty New Yorker stride, she weaves through the narrow, wooden hallways of the club to the back room, where newer chess players hesitate to go. She plops down her belongings on an unused chess desk, headphones on, and shovels a few bites...

There’s a culture of playing chess within the Black community, but for a long time, Black players, especially Black women, haven’t felt welcome in mainstream, competitive spaces. NBCLX storyteller Mackenzie Behm explores the lives of several young chess players, the opportunities the game has provided them — and why chess history is about to be made.

A former Soviet chess master is suing Netflix over a line in last year’s popular series “The Queen’s Gambit,” in which fictional characters claimed that this real-life female chess master “never faced men.

It seems a lot of you are fans of chess. At or at least watching a story about a young chess prodigy and her compelling tale. Netflix just announced that “The Queen’s Gambit” was viewed in a record-setting 62-million households, making it the biggest limited scripted series ever for the streamer. It’s also the number one streaming series in...

Darien native Jasmine Su has been finding her joy in the game of chess ever since she was seven years old. “My dad introduced this game to me and I’ve been hooked since,” said Jasmine Su. And now at the age of 10, she’s not only making moves on the board but in the rankings, as she’s been named...

Darien native Jasmine Su has been finding her joy in the game of chess ever since she was 7 years old. And at the age of 10 she’s not only making moves on the board but in the rankings…as she’s been named by the United States Chess Federation one of the top players in her age bracket in the...

The game of chess is about much more than capturing pawns and closing in on the king. Chess instructor Jim Santorelli teaches kids skills they’ll use their entire lives.