Krishna and Radha playing chaturanga. Source: Wikicommons/public domain The Gupta emperor Kumaragupta (r. 414-455 CE) founded the Nalanda mahavira (monastic university), which is regarded as the world ...
Maurice Ashley, who became the first Black chess grandmaster in 1999, is using the game of chess to teach life lessons. Ashley fell in love with chess as a 14-year-old high school student after ...
LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — The only African American in the Missouri Chess Hall of Fame lives here in the Kansas City area. In the 1970s and 1980s, Zeb Fortman II rose quickly as a champion in the chess ...