My 4-year-old daughter and I were deep in a game of checkers one day about three years ago when her eye drifted to a nearby table. There, a black-and-white board bristled with far more interesting ...

"Hola, ajedrez" means "Hello, chess" in Spanish. You've always been able to learn Spanish on Duolingo. And you'll be able to learn and practice chess on the language learning app soon. Duolingo ...

Another chess book? Complicated strategies? Dry lessons? An army of Russian names? Not close. Grandmaster Maurice Ashley’s “Chess for Success: Using an Old Game to Build New Strengths in Children and ...

Corrected: A previous version of this article referenced the International Chess Federation acronym as ICF. The acronym is FIDE. There are 25 million kids worldwide who play chess competitively, ...

After hosting more than 50 chess events this year at suburban schools, community centers, and temples, Aditya Gupta is working on taking his game to the next level. The senior at Fremd High School in ...

Some say life is like a game of chess – you have to calculate your moves, choose the best option and live with the consequences. So when Gilbert Rosa, a 12-year-old from the Bronx, decided to learn to ...

In Chessmaster: The Art of Learning, Josh Waitzkin, International Master and eight-time National Chess Champion, coaches players to grasp the basic fundamentals of chess and to master the game through ...