Interest in chess among students is growing at Columbus City Schools thanks to the work of a nonprofit aimed at bringing it back to the district.

Grand Street in Hoboken was hot with competition when more than 40 chess players of all ages went head-to-head in a tournament Sunday at the Play! Hoboken facility. The competition marked the club’s ...

Dennis J. Carroll Kian Morgan, 7, of Taos sat on the bleachers next to his mom Monday licking his wounds and the icing on a consolation chocolate cupcake after being quickly dispatched to the ...

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At Saint Joseph's University, hundreds of kids gathered on Saturday for the 17th annual PECO-ASAP Checkmate Violence Chess Marathon. It's where Brandon Tran, 16, is learning skills to, not only win at ...

<Cover art owned by G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books For Young Readers. I haven’t played, or even thought about, chess since I was probably 8 years old. Reading Ali Hazelwood’s young adult debut “Check & Mate ...

In the game of chess, every single move contributes to the overall outcome. All 16 pawns—the queen, knights, bishops and others—provide unique value to a player. The queen is the most powerful piece ...

In what can only be described as the ultimate test of brains and braun, chessboxing is a “sport”. It’s actually a fairly popular sport in London and Berlin. The game is exactly what it sounds like; ...

Indie game developer and publisher ManaVoid Entertainment, along with BadRez Games, announced Checkmate Showdown over the weekend. The game will bring all of the excitement of a fighting title to the ...