Palm Beach Gardens, Florida - A Hungarian native woman is trying to set a world record by playing 326 games of chess simultaneously in Palm Beach Gardens. Chessmaster Susan Polgar who now lives in New ...

Last November, in round eight of the Arab Women’s Chess Championship, Abu Dhabi-raised chess player Rouda Alserkal had a realization. If she won the match, she’d earn enough points to be named a Woman ...

Bodhana Sivanandan attained the title after she beat a 60-year-old Grandmaster during a tournament in Liverpool, England, on Aug. 10 Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work ...

Jessica Hyatt says she began playing chess for the very first time on a computer game at the age of 3. "It was one of the games that I fell in love with," says Hyatt, who is now a world-renowned ...

What began as a casual game in a public place quickly turned into something more serious. A confident stranger sat down, but the board revealed the difference in experience. Chess has a way of turning ...

Chess is a seductive showdown of love, loyalty, and power on a global stage. As two of the greatest Chess players in the world compete for something beyond victory, the woman between them becomes ...

Queen for a reason. Nona Gaprindashvili, the fifth women’s world champion, won the title in 1962 and held it for 16 years. She made history in 1978 by becoming the first woman to earn the Chess ...

Bodhana “pulled off the win” after she beat “60-year-old Grandmaster Peter Wells,” per the International Chess Federation A 10-year-old girl just became the youngest person ever to win the Woman ...