Rialto USD’s after-school chess program helps students build critical thinking, focus and resilience—ending with a Chess Masters tournament featuring 20 students districtwide.

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 ...

EFFECT ON JULY 1ST. WELL, SOME OFHE T COUNTRY’S BEST CHSES PLAYERS LEARNED THE GAME AS STUDENTS AT JEFRSFEON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. IT’S PART OF AN AFTER-SCHOOL ...

EVESHAM >> The large front room is bright, colorful and full of energy. Dozens of tables are set up with chess boards and chess pieces on them. Children start to come into the South Jersey Innovation ...

Students at Robert Service School in Dawson City, Yukon, can now earn high school credits by playing chess. The chess program ...

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 ...

In rural Franklin County, Mississippi, just seven of the 93 high school graduates last year went on to a four-year college. But that number may rise dramatically over the next few years, thanks to a ...

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 ...

Leah Jessen is a former news reporter for The Daily Signal and graduate of The Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program. An after-school chess program for 20 elementary and middle schools in the ...