The Balanced Rook Chess Club is a social group dedicated to providing accessibility to the game of chess while also acting as a catalyst for community.
At its simplest, chess involves two players moving 16 game pieces each – a king and queen; two rooks, bishops and knights; and eight pawns – from opposite sides of a board composed of 64 ...
Create a custom ceramic chess or checkers set in a March 4 workshop led by instructor Katie Cale in Hartford City.
Keith Fox ’80, addressing attendees at the 2017 iQ Awards dinner this past spring. (Nathan Oldham/UConn School of Business) STRATFORD ...
Chess and Community in Athens uses debate to teach students leadership, communication, and critical thinking beyond the ...
Century High school will host the 26th annual Rochester Area Scholastic Chess League (RASCL) City Cup tournament on Saturday in the north cafeteria.
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This is the chess lesson most players learn too late

Some chess lessons don’t come from books or engines—they come from losses that linger. This particular lesson only became clear after repeating the same mistake across multiple games. For experienced ...
At a private home in Park City, Utah, Alec Baldwin sat across a chess board from Judit Polgár – he sighted, she blindfolded. Despite the visual disadvantage, it didn’t take long for Polgár to ...
American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky died last year after suffering an abnormal heartbeat and had multiple drugs in his system at the time, according to a toxicology report that ruled the ...
The chessboard is shrinking at least in terms of time. In a landmark move, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) has officially approved a resolution that allows shortened time controls to count ...
Chess can be improved by rearranging the positions of the starting pieces to produce a more difficult or fairer game, a physicist has found. A standard game of chess always starts with the pieces at ...