A few "short" years ago, during my sophomore year at The City College of New York, some fellow Caribbean classmates told me that the education department was offering a "free" course, called Thinking ...

Jamie Yuccas is a CBS News correspondent based in Los Angeles. Yuccas joined CBS News as a New York-based correspondent for CBS Newspath in August 2015. Her reporting has been featured across all CBS ...

I never understood the benefits of chess because I never learned to play the game. As a kid I would watch the adults play the game and sit for hours methodically choosing their moves. In fact, I ...

Chess is one of those games that are easy to learn and but difficult (or impossible) to master. Its rules are fairly simple, but devising optimal strategies and planning multiple moves at the same ...

Corrected: A previous version of this article referenced the International Chess Federation acronym as ICF. The acronym is FIDE. There are 25 million kids worldwide who play chess competitively, ...

About four years ago, Fritz and Chesster appeared on the computer scene. Chesster, as you may guess from the odd spelling of the name, was a young boy who was interested in chess. The name Fritz is ...

Spectators watch the match between China’s Ding Liren against his challenger, Gukesh Dommaraju of India, at the FIDE World Chess Championship Singapore 2024, at Equarius Hotel, Singapore, on Nov 26, ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — RVA Pieces, a Richmond-area chess club, will be offering a free chess class at the Richmond Public Library on Saturday. From 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9, this free chess ...

More Pennsylvanians should consider learning to play the fascinating game of chess. Chess stimulates one’s mental discourse and thought processes. It is widely believed that it also kick-starts the ...

The first major conquest of artificial intelligence was chess. The game has a dizzying number of possible combinations, but it was relatively tractable because it was structured by a set of clear ...

Colorado has a rich history of athletes accomplishing great athletic achievements, and some include chess in that history. According to the Denver Chess Club, the first chess club in the state was ...