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It took about 50 years for computers to eviscerate humans in the venerable game of chess. A standard smartphone can now play the kind of moves that make a grandmaster’s head spin. But one artificial ...

Third-grader Tanitoluwa Adewumi was crowned as a New York State Scholastic chess champion on March 10. GoFundMe Before he won the primary (K-3) championship section of the New York State Scholastic ...

Aug. 4—Hoping to take advantage of the resurgent popularity of chess, the New Hampshire Department of Education is pitching a program that will train teachers to use chess concepts to illustrate math ...

Texas Tech University made history by being named Chess College of the Year by The United States Chess Federation, along with the program's head coach Alex Onischuk being named Grandmaster of the Year ...

A few weeks ago, a group of researchers from Google’s artificial-intelligence subsidiary, DeepMind, published a paper in the journal Science that described an A.I. for playing games. While their ...

During these challenging times, it remains vitally important to find ways to strengthen relationships between police officers and students of color. In response to this need, the St. Louis Chess Club ...

The room is mostly silent as two players muse intently over a chessboard, pondering their next moves. They take time to pause, think and strategize while their instructor watches. "I was always an ...

A school in the North Bay has become the only one in the country that has received international recognition for its chess program and how its teaching the game to a new generation. Joshua Gonzalez ...

Stuyvesant sophomores Kyle Lancman (left) and his twin brother Kaleb Lancman (right) prepare to greet students at the after-school Spanish language chess program in Times Square. Tamara Beckwith/NY ...