It is the sort of thing that would send Bobby Fischer into a tirade. Here, in the first round of the Maryland Scholastic Chess Championship, Patrick Allen’s chessboard – the plastic roll-up kind – is curling up at the ends. The more pieces he ...

Young chess players arrived at Henderson Memorial Public Library Saturday to hone their skills against other like-minded individuals from County. The County Junior Chess Tournament has taken place at the library for nine years and will be followed Saturday with a tournament for high school students and adults.

Young chess players gathered for the Annual Dancing Knights tournament. Held at UAB's Business Engineering Complex in Birmingham, the tournament provided excellent competition for aspiring young chess players. Many life lessons can be learned from chess.

On a Friday afternoon inside a classroom used for music lessons, a group of students are ready to learn chess. Teaching the newbies is provincial champion Jorge Moreno, who came to P.E.I. last September and is already on track to become a national master.

Mercer University chess club students lead weekly chess sessions at Roberts Academy to help students with dyslexia strengthen focus and confidence.

A labour of love chess club is teaching kids in disadvantaged communities that the sky’s the limit. It is about 3pm in a grade four classroom in Impendulo Primary School in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, and more than a dozen children are focused on one thing ...

Alexandra Botez ’17, the first female president of Stanford Chess Club, has been playing chess since she was 6. (YELIZAVETA ORLOVA/The Stanford Daily) For Alexandra Botez ’17, chess has been an important part of life for many years. She’s been ...