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 ...

LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — The only African American in the Missouri Chess Hall of Fame lives here in the Kansas City area. In the 1970s and 1980s, Zeb Fortman II rose quickly as a champion in the chess ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tanitoluwa “Tani” Adewumi has battled a challenging immigrant experience on his way to becoming one of chess’ best young players.

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 time, CBS ...

A 19-year-old Black teenager has made chess history. According to the Black News, chess player Jessica Hyatt, 19, recently became the youngest African American woman to earn the National Master title.

EXCLUSIVE: “Plan to leave something behind so your name’ll live on / no matter what the game lives on,” says Nas on his 1999 album Nastradamus, and now the revered rapper is making some moves in a new ...

Derrick Rose wants to make the game of chess more appealing to the general public. Derrick Rose is putting his love for chess on full display, hoping to inspire more people to value the game the way ...

Note: David R. Sands is taking the week off. The following is a reprint of a column that ran Feb. 22, 2022. “As a matter of fact, one can claim the greater Washington D.C. metropolitan area was the ...

Black people eventually come for every sport in which we’re not traditionally known to engage. Now you can add chess to that list. Also Read:Tanitoluwa Adewumi overcomes homelessness to become chess ...