The World Chess Hall of Fame & Galleries (WCHOF) today announced the 2026 U.S. and World Chess Hall of Fame inductees. Members of both Halls of Fame are chosen for their impact on the sport and ...

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Andy Woodward sits behind a chess board with his 2026 U.S. Junior Championship in St. Louis. He won his second championship ...

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McKinney chess grandmaster Andy Woodward, 16, returns to St. Louis to defend his U.S. Junior Championship title after an ...

The front page of the Deseret News in 1972, as Bobby Fischer won the World Chess Championship over Boris Spassky. There's nothing like a good chess match to heat up a Cold War. On July 11, 1972, the ...

Discover how Gen Z trailblazers like chess prodigy R Praggnanandhaa, cricket sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, and tech innovator Sarthak Sidhant defy norms and redefine success through talent, ...

If a fervent chess player seeking a challenging game partner doesn’t happen to live in a major city such as St. Louis, Missouri, home of the World Chess Hall of Fame, the next best thing might be ...

You’re reading The Sporting Scene, Louisa Thomas’s weekly look at the world of sports. When Gukesh Dommaraju was a small child growing up in Chennai, India, his parents wanted him to be an athlete.

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Herman Hollerith's punch-card machinery, created for the 1890 census, became the foundation for the company later known as IBM. IBM secured a major government contract to process the first Social ...