(JTA) — Daniel Naroditsky, a Jewish chess grandmaster and former child prodigy who became one of the game’s most popular voices through his streaming, commentary and teaching, has died at 29.

You first met Avi Kaplan on these pages in 2022. Then a 15-year-old freshman at Lane Tech College Prep, Kaplan had finished second among ninth-graders at the U.S. Chess Federation’s National K-12 ...

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Erez Kupervaser, 25, had been eager to participate in the 40th Basque Country Open competition in Sestao, a town in Bilbao in northern Spain, from Sept. 12-18. He and three friends who registered for ...

Jewish-American chessmaster Daniel Naroditsky passed away unexpectedly at the age of 29, his club announced Monday. Naroditsky was a grandmaster from the Charlotte Chess Center, an American ...

The Solon High School chess team captured first place at the Ohio State Chess Championships held March 7 and March 8 in Akron, while the Solon Middle School team placed ...

Jews won the first five places in the All-Polish chess tournament which concluded here today. A Tarakower, with a score of twelve points, won the championship. Reporting the stories that define our ...

A Jewish chess player playing against a Muslim chess player. Chess problem 102 in the Libro de axedrez, dados e tablas (Seville, 1283).

"Most great Jewish athletes have at least this in common: They overcome God's gifts." That joke—the only one in Jonathan Safran Foer's depressing essay about Bobby Fisher, the Jewish chess genius ...