The Jefferson County Young Professionals Network recently provided chess boards to the Barraque Bishops, a local group which mentors youth by teaching them the game of chess. The Barraque Bishops was ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The two chess masters hunched over their royal armies, lost in thought. On one side, playing white, was 10-year-old Sam Sevian, who a few months ago became the youngest chess ...

Reporting from Santa Clara, Calif. -- The two chess masters hunched over their royal armies, lost in thought. On one side, playing white, was 10-year-old Sam Sevian, who a few months ago became the ...

To observe the Cairns Cup, an elite invitational women’s chess tournament that takes place in St. Louis, Missouri, I had to surrender my phone. A security guard checked my bag for “grenades” (his ...

It's not often that the world of competitive professional chess gains mainstream attention. The veneer of a stately, polite board game has been blown away in recent months, thanks to a saga involving ...