Broadway’s 'Chess' Gets New Cast Recording Featuring Lea Michele—and Fans Are Already Buzzing

Featuring Glee alum Lea Michele alongside Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher, Chess was brought back to Broadway in late ...
Hindustan Times

Why is the World Chess Champion, Gukesh, struggling? But he can make a comeback, here’s why!

The weight of the world title can break even the strongest of players. For 19-year-old D. Gukesh, the pressure recently reached a visible breaking point at the 2026 Prague Masters. Following a ...
The Hindu

Prague Chess festival: Gukesh held by Yakubboev; Aravindh turns the table on Niemann

World Champion D Gukesh played out another draw with Nodirbek Yakubboev of Uzbekistan, while defending champion Aravindh Chithambaram pulled a rabbit out of the hat to beat Hans Moke Niemann of the ...
Post and Courier

A 6-year-old phenom and a female champ. Charleston Chess Club’s still running gambits after 140 years.

CHARLESTON — When he was 3 years old, Sav Strickland played his first game of chess. He spotted a board while at a coffee shop with his dad and ran to grab it, begging to set it up. His father, ...
BBC

Chess was once for nerds - now everybody wants in

Shreyas became Britain's youngest Chess Grandmaster at the age of 15 In a silent school hall on the Isle of Wight the air is thick with tension. Faces twitch nervously, feet shake vigorously under ...
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Table slam at the World Chess Championship

With the penny going away, what should you do with the ones in your coin jar? Trainor tells haters she 'Still Don't Care,' with new album and tour Inside GM's new world headquarters: Modernized ...
Post and Courier

Columbia-based chess program expands to Charleston schools, aims to broaden who plays the game

NORTH CHARLESTON — On a recent fall afternoon, a group of students at Malcolm C. Hursey Montessori Elementary leaned over a chessboard, their eyes fixed on coach Susan Key as she pointed at each piece ...
KHQ

US Chess K-12 National Chess Championship takes over Spokane Convention Center this weekend

While we may be used to the spectator sports of Bloomsday, Hoopfest or Gonzaga basketball, the halls of the Spokane Convention Center are giving way this weekend to something a little less... loud.
AOL

An American chess grandmaster is dead at 29, and players are in an uproar about it. Here’s what’s going on

Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster who built a global following through his accessible teaching style and blitz chess mastery, died unexpectedly at 29, his family announced Monday. The ...
MLive

Viral chess grandmaster dies unexpectedly at 29

A famed chess grandmaster who went viral for winning games while blindfolded has died. The Charlotte Chess Center announced the death of 29-year-old Daniel Naroditsky on Monday. In a statement, ...
Cleveland.com

American chess grandmaster dies at age 29

American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky, considered one of the best chess players in the world, has died at the age of 29. The Charlotte Chess Center in North Carolina, where Naroditsky trained ...