Over the last two decades, Rochester's youth chess scene has grown, with the city's high school teams earning champion status ...

The evolution of the chess queen finds a parallel in rural India, where the “Checkmate Betul” initiative, launched by US-based Avika Shukla, offers free, structured chess training to girls with no ...

Rachel Reeves has been a keen chess player throughout her life but her credentials are now coming under scrutiny - Wenn/Alamy The Old French term “exchequer” comes from the chequered tablecloth on ...

Stars walk the red carpet at the 35th Gotham Film Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025 in New York City. Jennifer Lawrence attends the 35th Gotham Film Awards at Cipriani Wall Street ...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another won Best Feature at the 35th annual Gotham Awards, which were handed out tonight in Manhattan. Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi and his Palme d’Or winner ...

New York City honored the National Women's Soccer League champions Gotham FC with a parade and keys to the city Monday in Manhattan. The club got a goal from 30-year-old midfielder Rose Lavelle in the ...

The Washington Spirit played Gotham FC on Saturday, Nov. 22, at PayPal Park in San Jose, Calif. Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — All Gotham FC needed was one big moment Saturday night. One perfectly timed strike in what had been a mostly balanced, physical championship battle against the Washington Spirit.

South Oak Cliff High School is known for excellence on the football field, but there's another activity where students excel...chess. "We're on the football team, we're also on the basketball team," ...

Daniel Naroditsky, a chess prodigy-turned-grandmaster who helped bring the centuries-old game into the digital age through livestreams and online lessons, has died at 29. Naroditsky was considered one ...

"The only thing he took seriously was chess," one friend said of Daniel Naroditsky. Travis Dove / The New York Times Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky, a prominent voice in the chess community as ...