When 17-year-old Griffin McConnell was named national chess master in March, it was a major achievement — especially since he earned the prestigious title after undergoing his fourth brain surgery ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A chess champion from Brooklyn who's only 15 years old has been awarded a $40,000 college scholarship. Jessica Hyatt is one of the top 10 Black female chess players in the ...

Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died. He was 64. Fischer died Thursday ...

Hey, I’m Zachary but please call me Zach! I do anything and everything that has to do with chess and make my analysis ...

It was the chess master’s tragedy that the messy, tawdry details of his life often overshadowed the sublime genius of his game. Fischer, who has died at the age of 64, was a child prodigy, a teenage ...

Do you fancy yourself a quick learner? Well, good for you, but prepare to feel woefully inadequate after reading about a young man named Max Deutsch. So confident in his skills to pick things up ...

Viswanathan Anand, a five-time World Champion, will return to the Tata Steel Chess India tournament from January 7 to 11, ...

My older brother went to the school chess club at school in Minnesota where we live, so when I started first grade at the age of 6 I also started going too. I was drawn into the game and after a few ...

Decades after crushing it in international tourneys, this CEO still draws on his 3-step thought process behind every chess move to run his international tech company. Years before the notion of ...

A 10-year-old who once lived in a New York City homeless shelter has achieved a remarkable title for someone his age: chess master. Tanitoluwa "Tani" Adewumi became America's newest chess master on ...