FILE - In this Thursday, Mach 17, 2016 file photo, World chess champion Hou Yifan of China holds the trophy at an award presentation ceremony of the FIDE World Chess Championship in Lviv, Ukraine. The ...

MADRID – The world's top female chess player has given up her last game to protest being paired against mostly female players at a major tournament where male contestants outnumbered them. The ...

GM Hikaru Nakamura has won the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival — one of the world’s most prestigious open events — for a third straight year, but the American star’s victory last week was hardly ...

Here's an abridged list of phrases you might not expect to be spoken in anguish by a chess play-by-play announcer: "What's going on? What the hell is going on? What. Is. Going. On??" "Has she gone ...

English grandmaster Nigel Short (R) wins the 10th Tradewise Chess Festival in Gibraltar, Jan 2, 2012, after beating Chinese grandmaster Hou Yifan (L) in a blitz playoff. Both players had finished on 8 ...

BEIJING - Following are the top 10 sports news stories of China in the year of 2012 selected by Xinhua News Agency: - Chess world champion Hou Yifan claimed a historical victory over Hungarian Judit ...

MADRID (AP) — The world's top female chess player has given up her last game to protest being paired against mostly female players at a major tournament where male contestants outnumbered them. The ...

MADRID >> The world’s top female chess player has given up her last game to protest being paired against mostly female players at a major tournament where male contestants outnumbered them. The ...