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CHICAGO — In the midst of an ongoing national chess boom, a Whitney Young Magnet High School student started tutoring other students on how to play the game in his
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Chess has undergone a huge resurgence since COVID and the Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit.”
The Global Chess League (GCL) on Tuesday announced a steller line-up including current World Champion Ding Liren of China and his two predecessors and five-time Champions, Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Viswanathan Anand of India, along with ...
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The punchline of an old Soviet joke has a Russian sharing his dream about the USSR’s future with a Frenchman and a Brit. “Moscow is full of red banners,” he says proudly. What does it say on the banners? They ask. “I couldn’t tell,” he responds. “They were in Chinese.”
There is plenty of human drama in the seemingly cold and calculating game of chess.