"We always have to predict what is going to happen next, but for what happened in Almaty I didn't really predict anything. It didn't go as I expected." During a tournament in Kazakhstan last year, ...

Some of the world’s top chess players have decided to boycott this year’s Women’s World Championship in Iran because they refuse to wear headscarves as required by that country’s Islamic government.

Three years after fleeing Iran, chess referee Shohreh Bayat fears being further ostracized after challenging the game’s governing body and its president, Russia’s former deputy prime minister, over ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian chess player arrived in Spain on Tuesday after receiving what a source close to her said were warnings not to return to Iran for competing without a hijab at an ...

Hijab protest: Iranian chess champion Sara Khadem now in exile in Spain — CRISTINA QUICLER When Iranian chess champion Sara Khadem played in Kazakhstan in December without a hijab in solidarity with ...

Iranian chess player Sara Khadem competes without a hijab in Almaty on December 26. A top female Iranian chess player has competed without a hijab at an international tournament in Kazakhstan, in an ...

Sara Khadem played in a 2022 World Cup event in Kazakhstan without wearing the Islamic veil, which is compulsory for women in Iran — CRISTINA QUICLER Sara Khadem, the Iranian chess player who fled to ...

An Iranian chess player, Sarasadat Khademalsharieh, who is also known as Sara, has arrived in Spain on Tuesday, Jan. 3, after receiving warnings not to return home. She was reportedly warned not to ...