The FIDE Women's Chess World Cup is among the most grueling of tournaments. It goes on for nearly a month and features more than 100 players, prodigies to world champions, across age and nationalities ...

‘As a matter of fact, one can claim the greater Washington D.C. metropolitan area was the cradle for Black chess in America.” Local writer and two-time D.C. chess champion Gregory Kearse made that ...

Note: David R. Sands is taking the week off. The following is a reprint of a column that ran Feb. 22, 2022. “As a matter of fact, one can claim the greater Washington D.C. metropolitan area was the ...