A high school senior from Glastonbury picked up a new skill during the pandemic: chess. Samantha Tischler taught herself how to play. Now, she is teaching others through a free program at the YMCA of ...

EVESHAM >> The large front room is bright, colorful and full of energy. Dozens of tables are set up with chess boards and chess pieces on them. Children start to come into the South Jersey Innovation ...

A school in the North Bay has become the only one in the country that has received international recognition for its chess program and how its teaching the game to a new generation. Joshua Gonzalez ...

AIs have defeated humans at even more computationally difficult games. This is an Inside Science story. A new computer program taught itself superhuman mastery of three classic games -- chess, go and ...

The self-taught chess engine, known as “Giraffe,” was designed by graduate student Matthew Lai. Computers can already squash human opponents at chess by using their great computational speed to ...

It took about 50 years for computers to eviscerate humans in the venerable game of chess. A standard smartphone can now play the kind of moves that make a grandmaster’s head spin. But one artificial ...

Nicholas DiBiase recalls being stuck in an “unrewarding” career as an operations and personnel manager when his 6-year-old daughter, intrigued by a “Harry Potter” movie, asked him about chess. The ...

At Saint Joseph's University, hundreds of kids gathered on Saturday for the 17th annual PECO-ASAP Checkmate Violence Chess Marathon. It's where Brandon Tran, 16, is learning skills to, not only win at ...

After a harrowing trip last year from Colombia to the U.S.-Mexico border, an 11-year-old girl has found confidence – and even a career plan – through a New York City program dedicated to chess.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — Now in its second decade, the Cook ...