Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children test ideas on the chess board while coach Jimmy Brown quizzes them during a meeting of the Hoosier Chess Academy on March ...

KANYARUCHINYA, Congo (AP) — Children sit on the dirt, their clothes ragged and torn, their shoes punctured with holes, but their eyes bright and fixed on what's playing out in front of them. In a ...

When Ted Komada started teaching 14 years ago, he says he didn't know how to manage a classroom and was struggling to connect with students. He noticed a couple of days after school that a group of ...

A cell phone is a pretty constant companion for kids at school. It’s a distraction from pesky lectures, a way to talk to friends — and these days, an unstoppable vessel of playing online chess. This ...

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 ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Maine elementary school custodian and chess coach Dave Bishop and state champion player fifth grader Avery Zhang. This weekend Baltimore hosts the 2023 National ...

Musical Chess is a new Greenville program that teaches chess to children ages 2½ to 7. The curriculum combines music, movement, and play to teach the game and build confidence. When music, play, ...

“We relate chess to life,” says Ge Wright, program coordinator for Make a Chess Move (MACM) – a growing east Denver-based nonprofit that provides both in-school and out-of-school programming and ...

The kings of the elementary school chess world now wear backpacks from Brooklyn. A team of six public school students from PS 130, The Parkside School in Windsor Terrace, pulled off a brainy upset for ...

Anjelina Belakovskaia, three-time U.S. women's chess champion, will be trying to win her fourth U.S. title in a tournament in ...