The year: 2015. The place: Sydney, Australia. Irina Berezina stands at the front of the classroom, facing 25 boarding school boys. They stare back at her. Whisper. Eyebrows jag into frowns. It’s clear ...

The Netflix show about a female chess prodigy in the 1950s and ’60s is one of the best screen adaptations of the game yet. But there are a few wrong moves. By Dylan Loeb McClain This article contains ...

When Ashley Priore was growing up, and playing chess professionally, she noticed the space was often hostile towards women. She set out to change that -- and make the world of chess more inclusive.

For a sport that prides itself on logic, chess has spent decades clinging to one of the least logical traditions of all: separating women from men. There are no tackles to absorb, no finish lines to ...

Ashley Lynn Priore has a quick response when I ask her what she thinks of the hit show The Queen’s Gambit. “We were here first!” she says, only half-jokingly. Priore, 21, is the founder, president, ...

Beth learns to play chess from a janitor named Mr. Shaibol, who works at the orphanage where she spends her childhood. After she is adopted, Beth begins to partake in competitive chess competitions.

“This is as it should be,” Steinitz wrote, “and we hope that this example will be followed by other chess societies, it being evident that, if we engage the queens of our hearts for the queens of our ...

Netflix had plenty of surprises in store surrounding their biggest properties during Friday's Geeked Week event. With video games the focus, the streamer took the time to announce a slew of new titles ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Based on a nearly 40 year old novel from Walter Tevis, author of The Color of Money, The Hustler and the 1976 David Bowie film of the same name, The Man Who Fell to Earth ...