Carl Jacobs

The chess world is keenly anticipating the duel next November between 43-year-old World Champion Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen, the 22-year-old challenger from Norway.

Constitutionally, the T&T Chess Association finds itself wandering in a kind of no-man’s land.

If chess is regarded as a sport, how really popular is it?

The T&T chess community may breathe a sigh of relief, and perhaps regret, over the departure of Russell Smith as president of the T&T Chess Association.

Hopefully, Saturday’s annual general meeting of the T&T Chess Association will bring to a decisive end the unseemly dispute that has riven the organisation into irreconcilable camps over the last

It is unfortunate that T&T Chess Association (TTCA) president Russell Smith should see it fit to prolong the absurd and divisive dispute which arose recently over his proposed change in selection

Hopefully, the proposed Chess-in-Schools programme in Trinidad will become fully operational sometime this year.

How can we get more girls to play chess? The question keeps recurring since participation in the mind game has remained overwhelmingly male in every part of the world.