Two people hunched over a black and white checkered board ... Maria Emelianova is a leading chess photographer, tasked with traveling the world to document the highs and lows of the sport.

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This week, current world champion and chess’s biggest superstar, Magnus Carlsen, accused fellow competitor Hans Niemann of cheating. In chess, that is the equivalent of a 100m athlete publicly ...

rather than black and white, offers better visual contrast with the pieces during play. No wonder it’s allegedly the most popular plastic chess set in the world, according to the manufacturer.

In Black And White: How Chess Gave Viswanathan Anand Confidence And A Passport Before Praggnanandhaa and D. Gukesh took over our news feeds, Indian Chess was known by one name- Viswanathan Anand.

Two people hunched over a black and white checkered board, deliberating what moves they will make, how their opponent might counter and how they might counter that counter, with barely a flicker ...