IRVINE – The Great Park is welcoming the “sport of kings” on Saturday, with students from across Southern California set to compete in the park’s first chess tournament. After decades of moving ...

To some, it may look like a boring board game too complicated tobuild suspense. But to Mihai Harabor, the game of chess is sointense that it wakes him from sleep, keeps his attention formonths and ...

At my boy’s primary school the forward-thinking Principal has embraced chess as a part of the curriculum across the school. He has been collecting data over several years now to demonstrate how it has ...

School is over, the athletic fields dark. All that matters to the children squirming outside a strip mall storefront is getting to a white room lined with plastic tables. And the chess boards ready ...

Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. The pawns, rooks and bishops clicked as the teenagers set ...

All the Friday nights spent practicing have paid off for the Burnsville High School chess team, as displayed by their second-place finish at the state competition last weekend. “It was a very ...

Jerryd Bayless, Phillip Margolin and Susan Polgar. Remember those names. Linda Hu and Camille Franklin don't know any of them, but they do know chess. This morning, 8-year-old Hu, a Woodstock ...

CHICO — His baby sitter first taught him how to play chess at the age of 5. At 12 he won the Northern California Championship chess tournament in San Jose. Now 16, Michael Nielsen has helped found a ...

Chess is a classic game that often looks as good as it plays. Like all the finer things in life, a good chess set is a sensual experience; it should look good, the pieces should feel good in your hand ...

The World Chess Federation, better known by its French acronym FIDE, has gotten itself into a controversy over drug testing. FIDE instituted its anti-doping program in a so far futile attempt to gain ...

Stephen Dick's decision to open a store in Pitman was calculated like a chess move. All the King's Men, a store that specializes in chess products and board games, began five years ago as an online ...

At some point every GeekDad gets tired of playing the random chance games of Chutes and Ladders, Candyland, and Hi Ho Cherry-O with their GeekSon (or GeekDaughter). There are daydreams of chess, ...