As a leading chess coach in the former Soviet Union, Tamara Golovey trained some of the top-ranked players in the world. Her new proteges–north suburban children squeezing weekly chess lessons between ...

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In Dan Starbuck Pelletier’s program, the only kings and pawns in the room move on a black-and-white checkerboard. The playing field that exists outside the room is leveled to make way for the world’s ...

I spend inordinate amounts of time trying to convince my kids to embrace traits that are completely foreign to me. Patience would top that list. I cannot tell you how often I have yelled in a public ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — At the Saint Louis Chess Club, every day brings new choices and more and more people are seeing value in that. "We have about a thousand members and I think 20 or 30,000 go to ...

When music, play, movement, creativity, joy and chess – yes, chess – combine with a group of enthusiastic kids, magic happens. Adrienne Tellier founded Musical Chess and launched her unique program in ...

Most kids clamor to play the latest, most modern game possible. But a group of Rapid City students are bucking that trend, getting excited about a game that is almost 2,000 years old. The Rapid City ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Young Austinites are getting a chance to learn the classic game of chess at the George Washington Carver Museum. The chess program is part of an Austin Parks and Recreation program ...

REGINA – The Canadian Chess Challenge brought their 28th annual competition to Regina this year. Played at the University of Regina, each province has a team of 12 players, one competitor from each ...

Armenia has come up with a novel approach to school reform — it's making chess lessons mandatory for all students age 6 and older. A spokesman for the country's education ministry says compulsory ...