D.C.'s storied role as an incubator of Black chess in America

‘As a matter of fact, one can claim the greater Washington D.C. metropolitan area was the cradle for Black chess in America.”

Local writer and two-time D.C. chess champion Gregory Kearse made that claim in a seminal 1998 article for Chess Life, which noted that the thriving local area chess ...

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