A famous chess club in a slum of Uganda's capital that became the focus of the Hollywood movie Queen of Katwe is still ...

‘Queen of Katwe,’ African chess movie starring Lupita Nyong’o, makes all the right moves: ... from her first glimpse of the board game to her hold-your-breath ascent up the ranks of ...

How did she come to dominate the chess board when in real life women are almost always in a position of second power." wrote Marilyn Yalom, author of The Birth of the Chess Queen . Ad ...

More than a dozen children gather under a canopy in Makoko, the floating slum in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial center. Aged 8 to 18, they are focused on the chess boards before them, calculating ...

There are almost too many chess games on the Play Store to count, and while many of these are undeniably fantastic, most are aimed toward the competitive player.Netflix Games' newest release is a ...

A CHESS queen caught on CCTV apparently poisoning a rival’s board with mercury will not be charged after prosecutors dropped the case. Chilling footage showed Russian chess pro Amina Abakarov… ...

Netflix is releasing a number of iPhone and Android games for subscribers this summer, including The Queen’s Gambit Chess, Oxenfree 2, and a new Cut the Rope. Checkmate. Skip to main content ...

In 2020, 15-year-old New Yorker Jessica Hyatt—who happens to be one of the top 10 Black female chess players in the country—earned a $40,000 Daniel Feinberg Success in Chess Award. At that ...

In Kenya, art often includes circles, and his Kenyan board is round, which is unusual for chess. While the game isn't popular in the African country, it's loved in Russia. "In India, it's the same ...

Yet 11 years ago this African girl from the Katwe slum in the Ugandan capital Kampala had no idea what chess was. Now 19, she is a national icon in Uganda where she is known as the “Queen of ...

QUEEN OF KATWE CTC, 124 minutes, out December 1 Director: Mira Nair Stars: David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong'o, Madina Nalwanga When it comes to irrepressible spirits, it would be hard to top the Indian ...