CHICAGO (CBS) --A small chess team from Detroit scored a big win this past weekend, taking second place in a national chess tournament. The University Prep Science and Math Middle School chess team ...

Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov once referred to the game as a "psychologically brutal" one in which players must brave the risk of failure to succeed. For dozens of middle schoolers Saturday, ...

WILLIAMSBURG — TWO YOUNG BROOKLYN CHESS WHIZZES have been named national champions in this game of strategy. The students took home several awards at the 2024 National Chess Middle School Championship ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Archangel 8 Chess Academy will host the inaugural Buffalo Middle School Chess Championships on Saturday, April 20 on the second floor of the Downtown Central Library at ...

NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — A newly formed club at a North Providence middle school has brought kids and staff together thanks to their love of chess. About a month and a half ago, the Birchwood ...

Move over basketball, football and volleyball, there is a new activity taking the Bigfork Middle School by storm — chess. When Sam Tudor started a chess club at the high school several years ago, ...

Central Middle School reinstated its afternoon Chess Club this year by popular demand after a year hiatus. Forty-five students signed up. On March 6, the top four chess club players met at Broadway ...