A local library is giving residents a chance to sharpen their strategy skills with a free chess night this spring.

The young chess player reached instinctively toward his threatened king, scanning the board for safe haven — until his instructor stepped in with a question. “If you move your king out of check, what ...

Over the last few centuries, behavioral psychologists have documented all kinds of ways of modifying our actions and the actions of various animals. From the famous Skinner boxes to many modern video ...

Some chess lessons don’t come from books or engines—they come from losses that linger. This particular lesson only became clear after repeating the same mistake across multiple games. For experienced ...

My GM mom sat down to play Nodirbek, expecting a balanced fight. But his precision and timing quickly turned the game into a lesson. She walked away impressed by his depth of understanding. Trump ...

When Chess.com launched back in 2007, its co-founders had a few starting advantages: a lifelong love of the game, two prior companies they’d exited a year before, and one very good domain name that ...

Chess pieces are assembled on a board at the Albany Chess Center on Sept. 19 in Colonie. Founder John Oyeyemi Fawole and his team operate the center seven days a week and run programming not just at ...

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — Florida leads the nation in child drownings. We are surrounded by beautiful bodies of water and it’s why swim safety is more than a story. It’s a priority for us. In this “Swim ...

I’ve always been a pretty awful dancer — but I’d like to suck less. The question is: how much would that cost me? I decided $15 was my hard limit and went on a deep dive into Portland’s dance scene. I ...

CLINTON TONIGHT. RHONDELLA. WELL, THE. NONPROFIT NORTHEAST ARK IS LAUNCHING A FREE SWIM LESSON PROGRAM, AND IT DOES COINCIDE WITH BRADY CASSIDY’S DROWNING. CHILDREN WITH AUTISM. FOR CHILDREN WITH ...