I Might Never Have Become a Chess Grandmaster if I’d Stuck to Women-Only Tournaments-...
Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster and was the highest-ranking female player until her retirement in 2014. Below is her...
You have to be obsessed to succeed: Viswanathan Anand
The five-time world champion talks about his life experiences, the lessons he learnt about leadership from chess, and his forthcoming biography, Mind...
We Don’t Actually Want to Be Happy
Chess helps answer the perennial human question, “What should I do next?”
You may have already figured out...
Lagos! We Are Ready: 3 Days to go to The John Fawole Chess Awards!
The John Fawole Chess Award is a Prestigious National Chess Award presented to Nigerian chess players both home and abroad. The key...
Rewarding Excellence Since 2016: The John Fawole Chess Awards
Report by the panel of judges of #TheJohnFawoleChessAwards2016
Compliments of the season to us all.
This...
‘Queen of chess’ says it’s hard to imagine women competing at same level as...
The gender gap in sport may be narrowing, but in the game of chess women may never reach the levels of their...
Are Girls Bad at Chess?
Of course not —
but stereotypes can have a real effect on performance.
One of the most talked-about findings in...
Checkmate! Managing Panic Disorder Through Chess Therapy
Based on the National Institute of Mental
Health statistics, approximately 4.7% of Americans experience panic disorder in
their adulthood. During a panic attack, a...
Solving with Nunn
Problem solving is a challenging field, with young participants generally dominating. There is one exception. Year after year a British mathematician, grandmaster...
Chess For The Future!
Today 5 million children play chess every week in the schools of Europe. Compare this with the 250,000 FIDE-rated chess players in...
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The 2026 African Women’s Chess Championship: A New Chapter Unfolds in Botswana
The 2026 African Individual Chess Championships Women’s Section is underway in Jwaneng, Botswana, bringing together 44 players from across the continent for...
Wadim Rosenstein Didn’t Just Announce a Chess Event. He Made the World Look.
Most chess events come and go quietly with a flyer, a post and a few shares. The usual crowd sees it. There...
An End of an Era as Dasaolu Olurotimi Steps Back from National Friends of...
For many years, Dashe has been one of the familiar names in Nigerian chess organization. Through Friends of Chess, and later National Friends of Chess, he built a platform that gave players across different parts of Nigeria the chance to compete. Now, with NFOC 2026 titled An End of an Era, he is stepping away from that role.
