WEST HAVEN West Haven High School s newly crowned Renegade Queens chess team has put the sport s male image in checkmate. "This is the first time that an all-girls team will be going to the ...

On the opposite side of the board is Marilyn Yalom, the author of "Birth of the Chess Queen: A History" (HarperCollins, $24.95). The book explores the rise of the game's queen vis-a-vis the rise ...

Netflix’s seven-episode wonder The Queen’s Gambit finished No. 1 for a third straight week on the Nielsen U.S. streaming chart.. The chess drama, which launched October 23, racked up just shy ...

The Legacy Institute recently crowned the kings and queens that participated in the Black Knight’s Chess Tournament held over two weeks at Confluence Preparatory Academy. The competition ...

Georgian chess legend Nona Gaprindashvili has filed a $5 million defamation suit against Netflix, saying her depiction in the hit TV show "The Queen's Gambit" was "sexist and belittling." ...

From Birth of the Chess Queen. It is notable that the chess queen -- tsaritsa, boyarina, or baba (old woman or even “broad”) -- did not definitively edge out the vizier until the period of ...

In place of the queen, the Persians had farzin, a male figure whose name roughly translates to counselor. As H.J.R. Murray pointed out in his 1913 book, “A History of Chess,” the farzin’s ...

In the Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit,” the character Benny Watts walks up to Beth Harmon, the show’s heroine, at the start of the 1967 United States Chess Championship.