Mizzou Chess Program coach and manager Cristian Chirilia practices with team captain Grigory Oparin on Tuesday, Jan. 30. After winning the 2024 Pan-American Intercollegiate Championship, the team is ...

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 ...

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 ...

For many kids, summer means sleeping in late, hanging out with friends and having a whole lot of fun. For some, it’s also means strategizing their next move. A new program teaches kids a game that ...

It began two years ago in Sunrise, when 40 classrooms of second- and third-graders participated in First Move, a pilot program that introduced chess as a learning tool. So popular was the program at ...

STATEN ISLAND, NY - OAKWOOD -- Students at PS 50 are finding that bishops join in battle and knights often do save the day. That's because a number of first- through fifth-grade students are learning ...

Nearly thirty families gathered at the Ontario Center Mall on Nov. 22 for Chess Day at the Mall, a free community event ...

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 ...

Chess Day at the Mall featured instruction, family play and a tournament won by Todd Wynn, hosted by Chess Bus in Ontario.