Tournaments relocated, top player suspended as online players pitch in to help With Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine raging on, Svitlana Demchenko pauses to think about how she'll handle her next Russian opponent.
"I think it depends on the person …
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At 22, Nemo Zhou is not just one of the top female chess players in Canada, she’s also one of the most-watched streamers.
Two years ago she became the first chess player
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Here’s the part of Phiona Mutesi’s story you might know from the Disney movie "Queen of Katwe."
She grew up in Katwe, Kampala’s largest slum. Her dad died when she was a toddler. Starting at a young age, she and her siblings had to sell maize on the street
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Grid spoke with Jennifer Shahade — a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, woman grandmaster, director of the women’s program at the United States Chess Federation and author of several books on chess — about the resurgence of the game, gender disparities and what the chess community has done to address the issue. Women are playing chess more than ever before.
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JulesGambit is a rising star in the chess streaming community who is currently based in California. With a background as a junior chess champion, she returned to chess as an adult and started sharing her passion for the game on Twitch earlier this year. Since then, she's amassed over 2.5k followers on the platform and regularly streams her games to hundreds of viewers.
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