Queen on Board
We celebrated International Women’s Day earlier this week. And I’ve been thinking about the women and girls in my life even more than usual. The Queen Some say it’s the most powerful and...
Tagged: Women in Chess
Chess superstar to visit CIC Chess Camp
Maili-Jade Ouellet is a chess player from Saint-Lambert, Québec, just across the St Lawrence from Montréal. She won the Canadian Women’s Chess Championship in 2017, when she was just 15. She won the Continental...
Talking Chess to Life™
Talking Chess to Life™ is a video series with Michael Sutton and George Supol. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at some of the thinking we put into our own game here at CIC. The first...
The First Women’s World Champion: Vera Menchik
When you look superficially at the world of chess, all you see are men. And, with really horrible logic, when a woman shows prowess and skill in the so-called Game of Kings, the fact...
Celebrating International Women’s Day
At CIC we’re always happy when girls join our clubs! While the professional chess world is still dominated by men, women have made fantastic strides in the game over the last century. Most notably,...
Humans of Chess: Qiyu Zhou
“I learned chess in France, just before I turned four years old. It happened completely randomly, I was walking down a street to the beach and just happened to see a chess set. I was immediately …
