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
2008 Chess Olympiad 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.