West Orange Chess Club member Damon Garrett runs Chess for Life, an educational enrichment program promoting chess as a tool for lifelong learning. Garrett says 30 to 40 percent of the K-12 kids ...

DogEared games have come up with some unique ideas on colour chess. It is a form of chess where the board is not the usual black and white. That's what I will reveal for now.

At 9:00 on a Saturday morning, a room in New York’s Rockland Community College is filled with nearly 100 Black grade school and high school students all attentively watching one man speak. His ...

One chess theorist held that black is lost from the start when this move is played. As early as 1939, American master Weaver Adams claimed white is winning after the very first move, at least when ...

In the 1970s and 1980s, Zeb Fortman II rose quickly as a champion in the chess world at a time when very few Black men played competitively. He was a few points away from becoming a master when he ...

Maurice Ashley, who became the first Black chess grandmaster in 1999, says it's important to have a beginner's mindset, in chess and in life. Latest U.S.