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 ...

Maurice Ashley, who became the first Black chess grandmaster in 1999, is using the game of chess to teach life lessons. Ashley fell in love with chess as a 14-year-old high school student after ...

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (WCSC) - One high school teacher in Summerville uses chess to teach her students about strategy, planning and connection. James Carroll teaches eleventh-grade U.S. History and ...

ST. PAUL -- Fourth-graders at William Byrne Elementary sat on the carpeted floor as they concentrated on where to maneuver the 32 chess pieces on the game board. They focused overthrowing their ...

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 ...

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, ...

Duolingo is a popular language learning app with 103.6 million monthly active users. The company announced on Tuesday that it is testing a new chess course. Duolingo plans to roll out the chess course ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Chess is having a moment- Google searches for “how to play chess” are spiking, “The Queen’s Gambit” is Netflix’s largest limited scripted series to date, and chessboards are ...

The New York revival of “Chess” at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre might be playing to mixed reviews, but reviews for the youth chess meet-ups and classes at area recreation centers and libraries are ...