"Sometimes I do think about [her daughter] during the event but it's very important to stay focused and sometimes I don't even talk with her so that I don't get emotionally weak. It's tough being so ...

Claire, 50, wants to show the middle-aged women out there that it’s never too late to start as she appears on BBC's Chess Masters: The Endgame ...

A chess board consists of eight rows and eight columns ... But it cannot move to a square which is under threat. 2. The Queen is the most powerful chess piece and can move any number of squares ...

The twist: The tour randomizes the starting positions of the chess board’s most important pieces, so each game begins with the queen, rooks and knights in a jumble. Players have to adapt on the fly.

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC‘s upcoming Chess Masters: The Endgame competition format was inspired by so much more than The Queen’s Gambit ... to get the BBC on board – coming nearly 50 years after ...

and yet she keeps pushing herself more. The reigning World Champion in women's rapid chess, Humpy won her second title in December 2024, five years after her first. That World title, in 2019 ...