Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Beersheba ya zama cibiyar wasan chess ta Isra'ila; godiya ga ƙaurawar Soviet, gida ne 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 wasan chess ta Isra'ila ta lashe lambar azurfa a gasar Olympics ta Chess ta 2008
da tagulla a gasar Olympics ta 2010. Eliyahu Levant ne ya kafa kulob din chess a 1973, wanda har yanzu shi ne ruhun da ke motsa shi.