Students from across the Eastern Sierra gathered for a day of strategy, concentration and friendly competition at the March ...

In general, winning is a good thing. It is much more fun to win than lose, especially in a tournament where winning means you keep playing. Any player in yesterday’s NCAA Final Four men’s basketball ...

Excited chatter echoing from the gym at Cheston Elementary in Easton yesterday made the school’s annual chess tournament sound a lot like recess. But despite the babble, more than 100 pupils from 15 ...

Jumping into its third year, the Twillman Elementary School Chess Club began its season teaching the students the points of the strategy game. The goal is to capture or checkmate the opponent’s king. ...

Tribune On Friday nights in South Bossier, the quiet concentration of chess boards replaces the usual buzz of after-school routines as local children gather for friendly competition, sweet treats and ...

Vishwanathan Anand (popularly known as Vishy) believes chess helps improve self-confidence, and problem solving techniques, and memory of students. “It’s a two way process. To play chess, you must ...

World Chess champion Viswanathan Anand on Friday asked Bihar students to play chess since the game develops memory. Improved concentration helps students learn more and perform well academically,” the ...

Like most kids, the students who work with David Adkins at Martin Middle School, 200 N. 28th St., enjoy games. But the games they play don’t involve rapid hand-eye coordination, smartphones or ...

Furrowed brows and fidgeting fingers hovered over the black and white squares of chess boards at Parkview School Wednesday afternoon, as 134 students competed in this year’s first Sacramento Valley ...

SEVEN-year-old Eden Strickland-Bennett summoned up all her concentration to work out the next tactical move at a holiday chess club. And it paid off as she won two of her five games during the ...