By Aden Ho, Summer Youth Intern The Implications of Chess in Business The market size, measured by revenue, of the Business Coaching industry is $11.6bn in 2021. Billions of dollars spent on coaching, much of which can be learned via an ancient game involving plastic pieces and monochromatic squares. Playing chess is running a business …
By Matthew Nedderman The Chess Players of 1876 In this painting, the artist’s father sits in a Renaissance Revival parlor of a Philadelphia home, watching a chess game between two friends. Eakins paid tribute to his father with a Latin inscription on the chess table’s drawer that reads, “Benjamin Eakins’s son painted this in …
By Somaiya Ahmed, Summer Intern Ep.2: “Exchanges” Episode Two of “Queens Gambit” takes us a few years into the future. Beth is now a teenager moving into her first home. She experiences insecurity trying to adapt to the changes of her new environment; however, she finds positive and negative ways to cope. This …
By Isabel, Summer Youth Intern The chess community is bustling as of right now with so many different tournaments going. Besides the World Cup, the Senior, Junior and Junior Girls’ championships are all going on currently. All these competitions and championships are held in the Saint Louis Chess Club, located in the hub for chess …
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By Evan Rabin, CEO of Premier Chess In May, I kicked of a Premier Chess Program at a middle school at an impoverished neighborhood in Brownsville, NY by asking “Why Play Chess.” I got some typical answers, including “It’s Fun.”, “It helps you think” and “Competition is fun.” They were shocked how I explained the …
By Somaiya Ahmed Unpacking Queens Gambit Episode One: “Openings” Welcome everyone, to the beginning of the Queens Gambit Miniseries Review! As a filmmaker and intermediate chess player, I thought it would be interesting to observe the show from my perspective. Moreso, focus on the cinematic style as well as the chess techniques mentioned. As …
By Josue Peralta, Summer Youth Intern International Chess Day begins on July 20th and was started back in 1966. The day was voted in by the UN counsel and was agreed upon unanimously as to encourage more people to play chess around the world and to celebrate the start of FIDE (World Chess Federation) . …
By Isabel, Summer Youth Intern The World Cup from a non-player’s perspective: The Chess World Cup held by the Fide Organization has begun. It is a major deal in the chess world with it lasting nearly a month. 206 players from all around the world vying for the title of world champion not only …
By Cinthia McDonald, Summer Youth Intern Let us see how fast your brain can work and try out these chess-based brain teasers… (The answers will be at the bottom of the page) Easy: Two individuals are playing chess, and they both play five games. In the end they leave with three wins without any …
By Leah Zimmerman, Intergenerational Resolving Conflict Expert I was 11 watching my grandfather play chess with his brother-in-law, his sister in law’s husband. We were up in the Catskills where my family spent summers together. Somedays I was just bored enough to sit and watch for a while. They both sat there motionless looking at …
