Ka cika wannan magana: Biyer-sheba ta zama cibiyar wasan chess ta Isra'ila; godiya ga Soviet ƙaura, ita ce gida ga mafi yawan manyan masanan wasan chess na kowane birni a duniya. Birnin ya karbi bakuncin Gasar Kwallon Kafa ta Duniya a shekara ta 2005, kuma ana koyar da wasan chess a makarantun renon yara na birni. Tawagar 'yan wasan chess ta Isra'ila ta lashe lambar azurfa a gasar Olympics ta Chess ta 2008 da tagulla a gasar
Gasar Olympics ta shekara ta 2010. Eliyahu Levant ne ya kafa kulob din chess a 1973, wanda har yanzu shi ne ruhun da ke motsa shi.