Tag Archives: Chess

Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate, Tunde Onakoya has broken the Guinness World Record (GWR) for the longest chess marathon.   He achieved the feat in the early hours of Saturday, April 20, after surpassing the 56 hrs 09 mins 37 seconds record achieved by two Norwegians, Hallvard Haug …

A British schoolgirl has become the best female chess player in Europe after winning a continental tournament at the age of eight.      Bodhana Sivanandan, from Harrow in northwest London, was named the best female player at the European Rapid and Blitz championship, held in Zagreb, Croatia.      Sivanandan, …

Arsenal star Kieran Tierney is currently on loan in Spain with Real Sociedad.  The Scottish international lost his place in the Gunners team to new signing Oleksandr Zinchenko at the start of last season, thanks to the Ukrainian’s ability to invert from left-back. A previously untouchable player for Mikel Arteta, …

The world’s top chess federation has banned all trans women from competing in all-female contests over ‘unfair advantage’ fears. The new rules from the International Chess Federation (FIDE) state that any player who has transitioned from male to female ‘has no right to participate in official FIDE events for women’ until …

The 26-year-old fled to Spain with her family after competing in a tournament without wearing a mandatory veil. Sara Khadem, the Iranian chess player who fled to Spain after competing in an international tournament without wearing a mandatory hijab in solidarity with the mass protests back home, has been granted …

Originally known as “Chaturanga,” meaning “four divisions of the military” – infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariots – chess soon spread across the world, evolving into the game we know today. Its history and popularity can be attributed to the great benefits it offers to players. This article highlights seven mental …

Stella Schwartz, 16, hopped on the chess bandwagon earlier this year after hearing about the game from her older brother, Hugh, a high school senior in San Francisco. Alex Post, a freshman at the University of Colorado, started playing in February, after some chess-related videos appeared in his Tik Tok …

A robot broke the finger of a 7-year old during the Moscow Open, a chess tournament in Russia. That’s right the first robot to attack a human child was a chess robot. The child apparently didn’t follow the safety rules that one must abide by to survive a chess match …

Alexander Nikitin, the principal coach of the world chess champion Garry Kasparov from the time Mr. Kasparov was 10 until years after he had become the titleholder, died on June 5 in Moscow. He was 87. The International Chess Federation, the game’s governing body, announced his death on its website. …