What does the 8th-grade chess team at Glen Ellyn’s Hadley Junior High have in common with any top Super Bowl star, Olympic gold medalist or pro basketball MVP? A victory and a celebratory trip to Walt ...

Chess-problem solvers are a special breed of chess lover. They like problems for the mental challenge, the beauty of the solutions, and for many reasons that might be of little interest to the ...

At 2:30 p.m. the dismissal bell rings at Chicago’s Harold Washington Elementary School, and hundreds of children dash out the front door. Sixteen pupils, however, head to the second-floor Spanish ...

More books have been written about chess than any other game. Yet there are hardly any good chess memoirs. “It’s not the moves of the pieces but of the people that interest me,” said Tim Rice, author ...

Sean Sullivan sat leaning forward, arms crossed in front of him before a chessboard, waiting for Charles Katan to make his first move. But Sean, 8, couldn’t stay quiet – or still – for long. There’s ...

smart, stylish, expertly conceived winner. Deltas Chess does not boast the technical bells and whistles of the London or Broadway production. Nor is it any longer the rock opera of Benny Andersson, ...

John Forbes was itching to duke it out with Adam Wilcox. It didn’t matter to John that he was a 7-year-old first-grader and Adam was a big kid, a 13-year-old in the seventh grade. They were going to ...

OCOEE MIDDLE. The 18th Annual Central Florida Scholastic Chess Championship will be from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 14 at Ocoee Middle School. The event is open to all Central Florida elementary and ...