Two players stare intently at a board of 64 black and white squares. They are still except for a sudden grimace or the occasional twitch of an eyebrow. To casual observers, chess could seem boring. To ...

Students who attend Success Academy Charter Schools learn all about queens, knights and bishops along with their ABC’s. Success Academy, which operates dozens of charter schools in New York City, ...

This story is part of WTOP’s Small Business September coverage. Each week, WTOP will be highlighting small businesses across the D.C. region, along with financial, government and other organizations ...

I am merely one episode into The Queen’s Gambit, which means I’m six episodes behind the rest of the world, but even one episode was enough to make a solid case that chess is cool, actually. It is a ...

Johnny Means wants Wilmington's youth to make the right moves in life – and he is using chess to show them. The 16-year-old honor roll student has been teaching kids in Wilmington's Southbridge ...

In a storied chess club on the second floor of a Greenwich Village brownstone, the strongest female chess player in history teaches a group of kids her philosophy on the game. “The biggest challenge ...