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Best Chess Openings Every Beginner Should Know

Chess has enjoyed a sharp rise in popularity in the 2020s. The spike began during COVID lockdowns and increased when Chess.com created its first PogChamps tournament on Twitch in 2020, which proved ...
Washington Times

Celebrating D.C.’s role as the ‘cradle of Black chess in America’

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 ...