Chess

Rochelle Ballantyne navigates Marshall Chess Club in New York City like it’s her own home. With a hasty New Yorker stride, she weaves through the narrow, wooden hallways of the club to the back room, where newer chess players hesitate to go. She plops down her belongings on an unused chess desk, headphones on, and shovels a few bites...

There’s a culture of playing chess within the Black community, but for a long time, Black players, especially Black women, haven’t felt welcome in mainstream, competitive spaces. NBCLX storyteller Mackenzie Behm explores the lives of several young chess players, the opportunities the game has provided them — and why chess history is about to be made.

A former Soviet chess master is suing Netflix over a line in last year’s popular series “The Queen’s Gambit,” in which fictional characters claimed that this real-life female chess master “never faced men.

The county opened a new chess area Saturday at the Waterfront Park next to the County Administration Center downtown with a tournament and ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The county opened a new chess area Saturday at the Waterfront Park next to the County Administration Center downtown with a tournament and ribbon-cutting ceremony.