It is a game of skill and strategy and perseverance. And we should teach it to our kids. Start when they’re young Chess is not just for grown-ups, or high-school kids.

Thanks to the pandemic and hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit, interest in virtual chess has spiked. More Americans now play chess than tennis and golf combined, and most of that is online. In ...

How to Play 1. Contact someone you want to start a chess game with. 2. Make sure you both have chessboards and all the pieces. 3. Study up on chess if need be and learn all the move notations.

Grandmaster Maurice Ashley travels across the U.S. to teach students to play chess and apply its tactics and strategies to their lives. A former student reflects on the lifelong lessons he taught her.

By the 116th move, the game could be found in endgame tablebases, those precalculated positions made known by modern machines — the game was a theoretically guaranteed draw.