IRVINE – The Great Park is welcoming the “sport of kings” on Saturday, with students from across Southern California set to compete in the park’s first chess tournament. After decades of moving ...

Chess may be an elegant game of the intellect, played sitting down, but don’t let the lack of cross-body blocks fool you. When chess egos clash, sparks fly. The executive board of the United States ...

School is over, the athletic fields dark. All that matters to the children squirming outside a strip mall storefront is getting to a white room lined with plastic tables. And the chess boards ready ...

Chess is a classic game that often looks as good as it plays. Like all the finer things in life, a good chess set is a sensual experience; it should look good, the pieces should feel good in your hand ...

The pawns, rooks and bishops clicked as the teenagers set up their games and, seconds later, the sound of pieces sliding across the board could be heard, followed soon, by shouts of “check,” ...

Jerryd Bayless, Phillip Margolin and Susan Polgar. Remember those names. Linda Hu and Camille Franklin don't know any of them, but they do know chess. This morning, 8-year-old Hu, a Woodstock ...

At my boy’s primary school the forward-thinking Principal has embraced chess as a part of the curriculum across the school. He has been collecting data over several years now to demonstrate how it has ...

All the Friday nights spent practicing have paid off for the Burnsville High School chess team, as displayed by their second-place finish at the state competition last weekend. “It was a very ...

Stephen Dick's decision to open a store in Pitman was calculated like a chess move. All the King's Men, a store that specializes in chess products and board games, began five years ago as an online ...

Co-founder and CEO Erik Allebest shares the moves that helped the company come out on top—and where it goes from here.

Social network for chess fans Chesspark is merging with that other online chess community site, Chess.com, the two companies announced last night. Chess.com is making the transition easy, as former ...

At some point every GeekDad gets tired of playing the random chance games of Chutes and Ladders, Candyland, and Hi Ho Cherry-O with their GeekSon (or GeekDaughter). There are daydreams of chess, ...