Jerryd Bayless, Phillip Margolin and Susan Polgar. Remember those names. Linda Hu and Camille Franklin don't know any of them, but they do know chess. This morning, 8-year-old Hu, a Woodstock ...

Sitting at the kitchen table of his family’s Franklin home, Danny Angermeier begins to grin. Unfurled in front of him is a chess mat with blue and white squares, its playing pieces — kings, queens, ...

CITY OF NEWBURGH — Matthew Tether unrolled a world champion-standard chess mat and plopped it on the sidewalk near the front steps of Baptist Temple Church. "This is where it all began," he said. The ...

"When it's quiet, it brings me peace," said Cesia Chirinos, 12, of Des Moines. The Moore Elementary third-grader sat quietly, pink fingernails pressed against her cheek, concentrating on which piece ...

Students of all ages gather around a taco bar in the Lake Forest Elementary cafeteria and discuss how the day’s chess matches have gone so far. Behind them, tables and tables of chess sets are set up, ...

Over a rollup chess mat on a Franklin Park picnic table, Loren Schmidt brightens while speaking about the Alekhine's Defence, one of his favorite openings. Schmidt, a Heritage University professor and ...