At the United States Chess Championship, I entered a world of chess as serious business. For one thing, I was wanded by a security guard on my way up to the competition. (To prevent cheating, cell ...

The “queerest anti-imperialist chess club on earth” is using chess to build a community and provide an entry way into radical politics. About a dozen chess players and observers gathered on the patio ...

PA live! (WBRE) — Paola Giangiacomo is back to give a teaser of her next edition of Paola’s Parenting Playbook. This week she is discussing a hobby that is increasing in population amongst teens: ...

It’s a popular notion that learning chess can make you smarter. Chess clubs and federations around the world promote the game for inclusion in school curricula, especially at the elementary level. In ...

Chess is getting a sequel. Yes, that Chess. The game with the little horses and kings and queens has been around for thousands of years. A few video games have transcended our hobby to become ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Laffeyette Smith’s tattooed hands reached across a chess board as he moved his king while his opponent, Jamar Holmes, groaned as he realized he had made a ...

Computer chess engines surpassed the world’s best human players in the 1990s. They can calculate millions of moves per second, allowing them to quickly make the best decision on the board. So why ...