As we’re coming around to the one-year anniversary of the March 2020 COVID shutdown, GM Mark Bluvshtein, the newest member of CIC’s Board of Directors, interviews Director of Operations Marcus Wilker to give you...
Chess Institute’s Peter Lambert has been teaching chess remotely at Hartley Bay School in Gitga’at First Nation on the West Coast. David Moses interviews Peter for ELMNT FM as part of his daily “Moment...
A new golden age for chess? The Globe and Mail’s Dave McGinn talks to some of CIC’s newest chess families. Read the article
Global News Consumer and Investigative Reporter Sean O’Shea recently spoke to Canadian GM Aman Hambleton and our own Nick Grachev, about the current surge of chess interest, and why chess is such a great...
In the popular new Netflix miniseries, Queen’s Gambit, Elizabeth Harmon is asked to solve a mate-in-3 problem by one of Benny’s friends. Despite claiming that composed chess problems are “irrelevant” because they feature positions...
