Women content creators are helping chess shake its image as an "old man's game" and bring it into the digital age.
A 10-year-old British girl has made chess history by becoming the youngest female player to ever beat a grandmaster. Bodhana Sivanandan, from northwest London, defeated 60-year-old grandmaster Pete ...
Twenty-one-year-old Trisha Kanyamarala became the first Irish woman to be awarded the title of woman grandmaster (WGM) in chess, following her high standard of play at the London Chess Classic ...
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 ...
Susan Polgar would go to the ends of the earth to raise awareness of the game of chess. There was the event in Florida where she played 326 matches simultaneously, setting a world record. And there ...
Judit Polgár, who is widely regarded as the best female chess player of all time, defeated great players like Garry Kasparov, Magnus Carlsen, and other world champions. She is the only woman to pass ...
Chess legend speaks about country’s brightest stars and who she believes could take her spot as a smasher of the glass ...
India slipped to 25th in the 2026 Gender Equality in Chess Index (GECI), highlighting gender imbalance in the sport. Despite strong performances by elite women players, female participation in youth ...
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 ...