Beth learns to play chess from a janitor named Mr. Shaibol, who works at the orphanage where she spends her childhood. After she is adopted, Beth begins to partake in competitive chess competitions.

Kids and chess? You bet. Never mind the Netflix hit series, “The Queens Gambit” and how the popular show has brought an interest in chess to a wider audience. Long before the streaming service dropped ...

Intelligence - and not just relentless practice - may play a significant role in determining your chess skills, a comprehensive new study has found. The study led by researchers at Michigan State ...

The Philippine senator lasted 41 moves against an app programmed to simulate a 10-year-old version of Norwegian world chess champion Magnus Carlsen. The charity match was broadcast on Friday during ...

As the new school year begins, Portland-based Success Tutoring is helping kids build confidence, critical thinking, and ...

The most astonishing thing in the game chess is that the player will always have an opportunity to grow. It doesn’t matter whether you may be a newbie in chess or you have been playing the game for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A chess champion in his youth, Brandon Burrows, principal and founder of shingle Firebrand, approaches producing like a chess game ...

Endgame studies are the artwork of chess, miniature lessons in clever tactics with hidden surprises in the solutions. The trio of examples this week are all tests of your imagination and ability to ...