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Maurice Ashley, first Black chess grandmaster, on the game's life lessons

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 ...
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Maurice Ashley, first Black chess grandmaster, uses game to teach life lessons: "Learning never ends"

NEW YORK — 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 ...
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19-Year-Old Teen Becomes Youngest Black Woman Chess Champion

A 19-year-old Black teenager has made chess history. According to the Black News, chess player Jessica Hyatt, 19, recently became the youngest African American woman to earn the National Master title.
Washington Times

Celebrating D.C.’s role as the ‘cradle of Black chess in America’

Note: David R. Sands is taking the week off. The following is a reprint of a column that ran Feb. 22, 2022. “As a matter of fact, one can claim the greater Washington D.C. metropolitan area was the ...