Thanks to the pandemic and hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit, interest in virtual chess has spiked. More Americans now play chess than tennis and golf combined, and most of that is online. In the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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You followed Beth Harmon’s rise to prominence in The Queen’s Gambit and made an account on Chess.com, but you just can’t wrap your head around the game at a fundamental level, let alone play like a ...

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 ...

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Mariangel Vargas joined her school's chess club after she and her family arrived to the U.S. from Colombia. A young girl went from having never played chess to becoming a champion of the game in less ...

Some children who escaped the Taliban regime in Afghanistan are now learning to play chess to help them adjust to life in Raleigh. Stough Elementary School in Raleigh has been the educational home for ...

About five or six months ago, Jack Larimer’s son, Jaxon, 9, told his father that he wanted to learn how to play chess.