“Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn’t make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be!” If you ask a chess player to elucidate this inspiring quote ...

On an uncharacteristically warm November evening, a preeminent Harvard statistician sat at a small round table in his office, across from an equally-accomplished colleague in the mathematics ...

Q: Can White win this position, with White’s turn to play? With only a King and a Pawn for White and a lone King for Black on the board, you might think there isn’t much you can do.. But then you ...

“If your pawn game is good, you can do so much.” So teaches Edward Trimble during an afterschool program he runs through his nonprofit S.P.O.R.T. Academy, which brought together dozens of young ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with chess writer and grandmaster Andy Soltis about 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer and the movie Pawn Sacrifice. In the summer of 1972, the world's attention was ...

Corsica’s schools have become a laboratory for a chess revolution that’s about much more than winning moves The contrast couldn’t be more black and white: inside the competition room at the Corsica ...