Arián González Pérez, a grandmaster ranked by the International Chess Federation, has been on a hunger strike for three days as of Wednesday following his imprisonment for participating in peaceful protests in Cuba on July 11.
Google-owned video platform YouTube mistakenly suspended the channel of a popular Croatian chess player after his discussion of “black versus white” in terms of chess strategy was flagged by the site’s algorithm as racism. The incident demonstrates that the AI tools the Masters of the Universe rely on to police their platforms are not yet up to the task.
A senior Iranian chess official who made headlines after saying she was too afraid to return home following an international championship in which she was caught with her hair uncovered, has revealed she has Jewish roots and has just celebrated her first Jewish New Year in the UK.
The notion that somehow the ancient pastime of chess is inherently racist due to the rule of white pieces moving first has been broached on an Australia taxpayer-funded national radio network.
TEL AVIV – A senior Iranian chess official is afraid to return to her home country after photos of her without a headscarf while at a tournament in Shanghai caused an outcry back home.
Purchased for less than $10 in 1964, the 3 1/2-inch “Lewis Chessman” was auctioned off at Sotheby’s in London for $924,000.
A young Lebanese chess player has drawn applause from local media – and terrorist outfit Hezbollah – for refusing to play Israeli opponents.
NEW DELHI – One of India’s top women chess players has pulled out of an upcoming championship in Iran in protest at having to wear an Islamic headscarf.
A two-time world female chess champion from Ukraine has decided to skip an upcoming tournament in Saudi Arabia, even though doing so will cause her to lose her titles because she refuses to be treated like a “secondary creature” in the Saudi Kingdom.
TEL AVIV — A chess grandmaster was forced to surrender her title for refusing to wear a traditional Arab robe in a major chess tournament held in Saudi Arabia.
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Israeli chess players could make history by participating in a tournament in Saudi Arabia after the international chess governing body on Tuesday said it was pushing to allow it to happen.
TEHRAN, Iran — A young woman banned form the Iranian national chess team, allegedly for attending an international competition without wearing an Islamic headscarf, has joined the U.S. team, an Iranian news agency reported Monday.
The Turkish Chess Federation announced on Tuesday that it has initiated legal proceedings against Muslim cleric Ahmet Mahmut Unlu, a televangelist who denounced chess as a supremely sinful activity.
Female Iranian chess players have hit back at calls by opponents of the country’s Islamic dress code for a boycott of February’s world championships in Tehran, saying the campaign hurts Iranian women.
The grand mufti of Sunni Saudi Arabia has ruled that Islam prohibits chess because it leads to gambling in addition to a squandering of time and money.
JAFFA, Israel -The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia has stunned viewers of his television show by saying that chess is forbidden by Islam.
