A high school senior from Glastonbury picked up a new skill during the pandemic: chess. Samantha Tischler taught herself how to play. Now, she is teaching others through a free program at the YMCA of ...

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 ...

The self-taught chess engine, known as “Giraffe,” was designed by graduate student Matthew Lai. Computers can already squash human opponents at chess by using their great computational speed to ...

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, ...

At Saint Joseph's University, hundreds of kids gathered on Saturday for the 17th annual PECO-ASAP Checkmate Violence Chess Marathon. It's where Brandon Tran, 16, is learning skills to, not only win at ...

Nicholas DiBiase recalls being stuck in an “unrewarding” career as an operations and personnel manager when his 6-year-old daughter, intrigued by a “Harry Potter” movie, asked him about chess. The ...

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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 ...

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