Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Macedonia – Community Focus has added a new monthly show titled “Y Not Chess?” Host Tony Dunlap Sr. is a chess enthusiast and ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Research shows that playing chess makes you smarter. Now, a local teenager is working to improve the lives of underprivileged children by teaching them chess. Ashley Priore ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — At the Saint Louis Chess Club, every day brings new choices and more and more people are seeing value in that. "We have about a thousand members and I think 20 or 30,000 go to ...

Nearly 20 years ago, I wrote about a chess-teaching program aimed at children ages 8 and up. It used various arcade-like games to teach kids how chess pieces moved and captured. It was a new concept ...

Finding ways to keep your kids engaged this summer may be hard to come by but have you thought about chess. The classic game offers a wide range of cognitive and personal benefits that extend far ...

Just before the big chess tournament, little Naomi Otero needed a pep talk to calm her nerves. Don’t cry if you lose. And shake hands with your opponent if you win, the second-grader heard from her ...

Popular language learning app Duolingo is giving its bite-size lesson treatment to one of the oldest games in the world: chess. Duolingo’s chess course will take users, who can range from complete ...

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Levy Rozman wrote a book that introduces infants to the chess board. But he doesn't just want parents to teach their kids the game. Here's why he thinks chess should be required in every classroom.

Jeff Bulington was new in town. He'd recently arrived from Memphis on a mission to teach chess to the children of Franklin County, Mississippi, when a man in an SUV spotted him. The man stopped the ...