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Established 75 years ago by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess, the record label focused primarily on black musicians and ...
Maurice Ashley, who became the first Black chess grandmaster in 1999, is using the game of chess to teach life lessons. Ashley fell in love with chess as a 14-year-old high school student after ...
Black chess champion teaching a new era of Kansas City students by: Loren Halifax. Posted: Feb 28, 2023 / 10:49 PM CST. Updated: Feb 28, 2023 / 10:49 PM CST. by: Loren Halifax.
Detroit middle school chess team takes 2nd in national tournament 02:29. CHICAGO (CBS) --A small chess team from Detroit scored a big win this past weekend, taking second place in a national chess ...
There’s a rich history of Black chess players. Moody, for instance, learned chess from his uncles. “They were born from the 1940s to the 1980s, they've all been in a penitentiary.
An investigation carried out by Chess.com, the game’s top online platform, has found that Hans Moke Niemann has cheated more than 100 times, according to The Wall Street Journal.. The American ...
Maurice Ashley, the first Black chess grandmaster found a worthy opponent, when he sat across from Cass Tech senior Charisse Woods for a blitz match.
Also a decorated coach, he has lead chess teams such as the Dark Knights and Harlem’s Raging Rooks to national championships and was inducted in the 2016 class of the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame.
Chess Club is now active at Linda’s Tavern and Rose Temple on Capitol Hill, Black Cat in Belltown, Big Time Brewery in the University District and King’s Hardware in Ballard.
Howard University’s chess club has been around since the early 1900s but hasn’t been active in recent years until a student decided to bring new life to the club in 2020.