COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - It was one of the most brazen moves in the chess world since the Najdorf Sicilian Defense, perhaps even the Blackmar Diemer Gambit. Fresh off her second straight national ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2004, after her first chess tournament in Philadelphia, tenth grader Emily Chu wanted to find a way to bring the competition ...

In the cutthroat world of college chess, University of Maryland Baltimore County was once as dominant as Duke in basketball or Alabama in football. UMBC was the first school to institutionalize ...

Chess players are breaking the stereotypical school social order in a Missouri college, and the jocks are not happy. Webster University, located in suburban St. Louis, put up a billboard on a freeway ...

In 1991, Alan Sherman took over the chess club at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. Since then, he’s built America’s greatest college chess program ever. Sherman’s school has gotten some ...

San Juan College announced that it has joined the Collaborative for Higher Education Shared Services, a nonprofit organization that includes four other community colleges and one four-year college in ...