Category: Chess

Although Jennifer Yu started playing chess in first grade in California, her parents didn’t pay much attention to her progress. “My husband and I did not take her

CHELMSFORD, Mass. — Only three years or so since first picking up the game of chess, 9-year-old Carissa Yip can already look down at 93 percent of the

The main catalyst for the progress of chess in Qatar is the Chinese player Zhu Chen, whom I coached. Males are not very ambitious in Qatar, because everything

China’s Hou Yifan, 17, stunned the chess world by beating the legendary and almost invincible Judit Polgar. CHINA’S 17-year-old Hou Yifan did not start out as a favourite