It was billed as a clash of generations, two queens contending for the same crown: on one end, Koneru Humpy, 38, the experienced, stoic millennial who has been India's top female chess player for two ...

Women content creators are helping chess shake its image as an "old man's game" and bring it into the digital age.

Judit Polgár won the very first chess tournament she ever played in. She was 6 years old. The Hungarian-born prodigy's impressive rise to chess stardom, which included becoming the world's top-ranked ...

A 10-year-old British girl is full of shocking moves, landing her a spot at the top of the chess world in a historic turn of events this week. Bodhana Sivanandan became the youngest female player to ...

India slipped to 25th in the 2026 Gender Equality in Chess Index (GECI), highlighting gender imbalance in the sport. Despite ...

Jessica Hyatt says she began playing chess for the very first time on a computer game at the age of 3. "It was one of the games that I fell in love with," says Hyatt, who is now a world-renowned ...

The documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last month, features interviews with Polgár's entire family, including her father, who spearheaded her intense training Queen of Chess is ...