NEW YORK — Maurice Ashley, who became the first Black chess grandmaster in 1999, is using the game of chess to teach life lessons. Ashley fell in love with chess as a 14-year-old high school student ...

Maurice Ashley, who became the first Black chess grandmaster in 1999, is using the game of chess to teach life lessons. Ashley fell in love with chess as a 14-year-old high school student after ...

Brooklyn native Rochelle Ballantyne, currently ranked an expert by the U.S. Chess Federation, has set her sights on becoming the first Black woman chess master. Law student Rochelle Ballantyne is on a ...

Nas at Powernomics Tour in September of 2017 in Chicago - (Photo by Eddy "Precise" Lamarre for rolling out) Nas is no stranger to including educational gems about our unsung heroes in his works and ...

At the age of 15, Jessica Hyatt has already been awarded a $40,000 college scholarship. On top of that, she is just a few ranks away from making history as the first Black woman chess master in the ...

Maurice Ashley hates to lose. So when the International Chess Grandmaster found himself in a precarious position during a jovial game of Bughouse last week, he put all jokes aside and focused. The ...

In just four years, Bronx native Justus Williams went from chess novice to being awarded the level of chess master by the United States Chess Federation at age 12, becoming the youngest African ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A chess champion from Brooklyn who's only 15 years old has been awarded a $40,000 college scholarship. Jessica Hyatt is one of the top 10 Black female chess players in the ...

‘As a matter of fact, one can claim the greater Washington D.C. metropolitan area was the cradle for Black chess in America.” Local writer and two-time D.C. chess champion Gregory Kearse made that ...

It's 9 o'clock on a Friday night at a Starbucks in Forestville, and Robb Peterbark is glaring across the chessboard at his opponent. "You better take Barbaro while you got the chance. If not, he's ...

Chess solution 2655 1 . . . Qg3!! effectively offers a maximum queen and rook in a single move. After 2 e7xf8=Q+ Bf8, White can only delay Qxg2 mate by increasingly desperate sacrifices: 3 Qxf8+ Kxf8 ...