On the Friday evening of Dec. 8, New York native Justus Williams arrived at the Detroit Institute of Arts dressed to impress in a crisp black suit and brown dress shoes for his chess date with 50 ...
Brooklyn native Rochelle Ballantyne, currently ranked an expert by the U.S. Chess Federation, has set her sights on becoming the first Black woman chess master. Law student Rochelle Ballantyne is on a ...
BOSTON – Nearly a decade ago, Jaylen Brown sat face-to-face with Lawyer Times. Times, a lifelong postal service worker (and competitive chess player) from Roxbury, was in the middle of launching an ...
Law student Rochelle Ballantyne is on a mission to be the first Black American woman chess master. “I’ve been trying to get it for the past 10 years,” said Ballantyne, 26, in an interview with Reuters ...