ROCHESTER — There’s a precision to 13-year-old Joshua Wang’s mind. It was a year and “maybe 11 days ago” that he played his first chess game. A chess club had started up at Kellogg Middle School, and ...

On a Wednesday night in July, chess boards and timers crowd tables at Ladybird Grove & Mess Hall. About 50 people play chess ...

It’s also well-known that playing as white offers at least a slight (but sometimes decisive) advantage during any given match ...

Mauro Aguilar plays football and knows football players have a reputation for being athletic and strong. He also is an avid chess player and is aware of the reputation chess players have among his ...

Nevadans love to play games — its casinos are full of them. But for family-centered board games, Nevada falls into the majority of states finding chess to be their most popular board game, based on a ...

Grand Chess master, Maurice Ashley, discusses how popular chess has become in St. Louis and throughout the country. He also discusses its future in the country and how St. Louis has become the country ...

It’s no wonder that Midwood’s Edward R. Murrow High School made big news this week winning the chess tournament at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn kids are learning more and ...

The volunteers tried to shush the students huddled over chess boards recently in a Minneapolis middle school gym. But the enthusiastic chatter of more than 200 young chess players plotting their moves ...

We live in a world where terms such as ‘brain rot’ are increasingly being thrown about among the younger generation. Yet, paradoxically, the same generation is embracing the cerebral game of chess ...