At Saint Joseph's University, hundreds of kids gathered on Saturday for the 17th annual PECO-ASAP Checkmate Violence Chess Marathon. It's where Brandon Tran, 16, is learning skills to, not only win at ...

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 ...

The program was first tested at the 2024 Chess Olympiad in Budapest, where it supported six mothers from around the world, ...

The International Chess Federation's "ChessMom" initiative introduces family-friendly policies to support mothers competing ...

The greatest chess matches are no longer played by mere mortals comprised of flesh, bone, and blood, but sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) schemes. Sitting at the top, at least for now, is ...

Free chess program launches for Bridgeport kids The founder says he was awarded $100,000 a year for three years to run a nonprofit comprehensive program for kids featuring a variety of programs, ...

When programming for modern platforms, the restraints are different to those of 30 years ago. Back in the dawn of the microcomputer age, storage and RAM were measured in kilobytes. It simply wasn’t ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. The initiative was announced in February 2023. Up to $70 million has been ...

In Dan Starbuck Pelletier’s program, the only kings and pawns in the room move on a black-and-white checkerboard. The playing field that exists outside the room is leveled to make way for the world’s ...

The game of chess can be intimidating, but not for 14-year-old Marco Baldwin, who lives in Humboldt Park. “I think what got me hooked on to it is just different playing styles people have when they’re ...

AIs have defeated humans at even more computationally difficult games. This is an Inside Science story. A new computer program taught itself superhuman mastery of three classic games -- chess, go and ...