Every Tuesday, the lunch tables at my son’s school are packed with kids, their shoulders hunched over game boards, deep in thought. There are no video monitors. Not an electronic cable to be found.

It doesn't take long to get addicted to the ancient and complex game of chess. If you've got competent players to spar with, there's a lot to discover about opening gambits and ways to counter them.

At Madison’s Trust Elementary School in Ashburn, Virginia, students are swapping screens for strategy at the Silver Knights ...

Corrected: A previous version of this article referenced the International Chess Federation acronym as ICF. The acronym is FIDE. There are 25 million kids worldwide who play chess competitively, ...

I am merely one episode into The Queen’s Gambit, which means I’m six episodes behind the rest of the world, but even one episode was enough to make a solid case that chess is cool, actually. It is a ...

The Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee, 200 S. Duval St., invites everyone — from curious beginners to seasoned players — to the Tallahassee Chess Fest, a welcoming and exciting weekend filled ...

It's described as a game of skill, strategy and thinking ahead while you wait for your opponent to make his move. It's said to foster skills such as reasoning, patience, not jumping to conclusions and ...

From solving puzzles to masterfully playing a game of chess, current artificial intelligence tools have employed algorithms ...

Fifth-grader Owen Johnston considers his options during a game of chess Thursday at Greenmont Elementary School. Students in Kevin Mace’s STEAM class learned how to play chess this past week in ...

As a chess grandmaster and a business visionary, I’ve found that the parallels between chess and trade are striking. Both require prescience, flexibility and a profound understanding of complex ...

NORMAL — At 5 years old, Eleanor Schenk already knows when she’s met her match. “I had three pawns and a king, so I had to call it quits,” she reported to her father, Andrew Schenk, following her ...

An AI strategy proven adept at board games like Chess and Go, reinforcement learning, has now been adapted for a powerful protein design program. The results show that reinforcement learning can do ...