Chess instruction launches on Android phones, and Duolingo customers with iPhones will soon be able to play chess against ...

Duolingo is broadening its horizons, adding a chess course to its educational repertoire. The language-learning app, known for its feisty owl mascot, launched an initial version of a chess course for ...

Chess. MMOs. As far as games go, they're nothing alike. But what if they were? That's the central thesis of One Million Chessboards, the brainchild of a single developer where you and hundreds of ...

I’m embarrassed to admit this in my mid-forties, but I’ve never understood chess well enough to play a full game. My son and daughter both learned how to play in elementary school. I was glad they had ...

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, ...

It’s been almost a month since 13 high school students and their coaches from Renaissance High School, a public magnet school in Detroit, Mich., piled on a bus for the nine-hour ride to Washington, ...

As a unifying and ever-present force in Athens for the past two decades, Lemuel "Life" LaRoche has worked with area youth through chess, robotics, STEM and debate programs to teach critical thinking ...