The International Chess Federation, also known by its French acronym, FIDE, announced that transgender women will be barred from competing in women’s events until the time a proper assessment of ...

Oregon’s first woman grandmaster in chess is 16-year-old Zoey Tang, a junior at Westview High School in Beaverton. “Woman grandmaster” is the highest chess title restricted to women that is awarded by ...

Nicholas Chrysanthou meets his opponent, Women's Grand Master Carla Heredia, with his fiancee, Sasha Hok, behind him at the start of the afternoon round of matches at the 79th Annual Southwest Chess ...

MURRAY — At the end of her middle school years in India, Jayashree Sekar realized she had to stop playing chess to focus on her studies. It was not an easy decision to make. Sekar enjoyed playing ...

With multiple women coming forward about their disturbing experiences in the chess world, including accusations of sexual misconduct by a grandmaster, the historic game is having its own #MeToo moment ...

The regulatory organization that governs international chess competition announced this week that transgender women would effectively be banned from playing in women’s events until further notice. In ...

A prominent women’s chess player has accused a fellow player of rape and sexual harassment as she warned a “toxic culture“ of misogyny and sexually predatory behaviour plagues the chess community.

Clearly, it isn’t transness itself turning trans women into superpowered chess studs. It's the fact that trans women were assigned male at birth. Far-right leaders are decimating LGBTQ+ rights to ...

Jennifer Shahade had just emerged from her loss in the final rounds of the U.S. Chess Championships here yesterday when 10-year-old Amanda Lu walked up and made her feel like a winner, eagerly seeking ...

With multiple women coming forward about their disturbing experiences in the chess world, including accusations of sexual misconduct by a grandmaster, the historic game is having its own #MeToo moment ...