LEARNING TO MASTER CHESS BOARD BEFORE BASIC MATH. AALIYAH PHILLIPS SHOWS US HOW SOME CLASSROOMS ARE USING MUSIC TO TEACH KIDS AS YOUNG AS THREE YEARS OLD HOW TO PLAY THE GAME. IT’S NOT YOUR AVERAGE ...

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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.

Chess has an undeniable mystique. It is often thought to be the game of games — too difficult to master and best admired from afar. In fact, the rules are quite simple. It’s possible to learn them in ...

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, ...

About four years ago, Fritz and Chesster appeared on the computer scene. Chesster, as you may guess from the odd spelling of the name, was a young boy who was interested in chess. The name Fritz is ...

Computers have been beating humans at chess for decades, and they’re now so predictably good at it that chess grandmasters won’t even bother to compete against them. But in what feels like a gesture ...

STONE MOUNTAIN - Jocelyn Torres, 7, of Stone Mountain is the only girl at chess camp this year who doesn't know how to play the game. That's changing fast. Jocelyn, along with 60 other boys and girls ...