Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. June 2018 Giant Chess board and players at the Hirschgarten Park Munich Upper Bavaria Germany In competitive chess, where the ...

LIPPSTADT (Germany), April 5 (Reuters) - Hussain Besou was just four when he started asking his father to teach him chess, hovering around the board as he played in the evenings in the Middle East ...

World chess No. 1 Magnus Carlsen will continue with Bundesliga team St Pauli for the 2025-26 season. Carlsen joined the German team in May 2024. Nicknamed ‘the Mozart of Chess’, the former world ...

Reports of sexual harassment and even violence have shaken the world of chess for months. Women are now speaking out and demanding change. "I guarantee you there is no woman who would say she has ...

Christopher Wiggins is a senior national reporter for The Advocate. He has a rich career in storytelling and highlighting underrepresented voices. Growing up in a bilingual household in Germany, his ...

Strange things happen in Hamburg all the time. On the second weekend in January, at the Brahms-Kontor building — an Art Deco marvel in the city centre — Germany’s highest level of competitive team ...

Germany's men head to the European Team Championship of chess in Georgia with the wind in their sails. A rising star and a surprise late bloomer offer the European country hope but India remain a ...

India has been the nation to beat in international chess since 2024, when the nation’s men and women teams won double gold at the Budapest Olympiad, while Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest ever ...

Eleven-year-old Hussain Besou, a Syrian refugee living in Lippstadt, Germany, will become the youngest German national player in the history of the German Chess Federation when he represents the ...

Chess prodigy Hussain Besou, 11, of Syrian origin plays chess with Andreas Kuehler, his former coach of LSV Turm Lippstadt chess club, at his home in Lippstadt, Germany, April 4, 2023. Hussain and his ...