New Delhi: Indian-origin chess prodigy Bodhana Sivanandan made her country proud by becoming England’s top-rated female player. Bodhana’s rise to the top was confirmed in the latest rating list of the ...

Ashley Lynn Priore has a quick response when I ask her what she thinks of the hit show The Queen’s Gambit. “We were here first!” she says, only half-jokingly. Priore, 21, is the founder, president, ...

For a sport that prides itself on logic, chess has spent decades clinging to one of the least logical traditions of all: separating women from men. There are no tackles to absorb, no finish lines to ...

The question for editor Michelle Tesoro: What is too much chess? The answer: Play the faces more than the chess. The enormous popularity of Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit” limited series took editor ...

A senior scholar at Stanford's Institute for Women and Gender who has written extensively on women's history, Yalom (A History of the Wife; etc.) sees the rise of female power throughout the centuries ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. In a New York Times column, chess master Dylan Loeb ...