In April, at the age of 26, I learned how to play chess. I’d never played before, but I always thought it looked fun. I thought I’d never be able to understand the game in its full complexity, but I ...

Happily, the local chess sessions for kids are free of complex subtext and Cold War metaphor. They are certainly different from matches between the game’s earliest players – an iteration called ...

Heisler’s Skinner box-esque chess set was inspired by similarly masochistic DIY projects like an electrified keyboard, and gets its voltage from a reconfigured TENS unit. Short for Transcutaneous ...

LEARNING TO MASTER CHESS BOARD BEFORE BASIC MATH. AALIYAH PHILLIPS SHOWS US HOW SOME CLASSROOMS ARE USING MUSIC TO TEACH KIDS AS YOUNG AS THREE YEARS OLD HOW TO PLAY THE GAME. IT’S NOT YOUR AVERAGE ...

D'Andre Davis, 10, of Youngstown, at right, watches as instructor Jeff Butts teaches him a chess game as part of Chess if Life at Eastwood Mall in Niles. NILES — While area children are learning the ...

“If your pawn game is good, you can do so much.” So teaches Edward Trimble during an afterschool program he runs through his nonprofit S.P.O.R.T. Academy, which brought together dozens of young ...

Maurice Ashley knows chess, and he enthusiastically shares that knowledge with kids who want to learn. Inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame, and the first Black person to earn the title of ...

It doesn't take long to get addicted to the ancient and complex game of chess. If you've got competent players to spar with, there's a lot to discover about opening gambits and ways to counter them.