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Jeff Bulington was new in town. He'd recently arrived from Memphis on a mission to teach chess to the children of Franklin County, Mississippi, when a man in an SUV spotted him. The man stopped the ...

Popular language learning app Duolingo is giving its bite-size lesson treatment to one of the oldest games in the world: chess. Duolingo’s chess course will take users, who can range from complete ...

Maurice Ashley knows chess, and he enthusiastically shares that knowledge with kids who want to learn. Inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame, and the first Black person to earn the title of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Macedonia – Community Focus has added a new monthly show titled “Y Not Chess?” Host Tony Dunlap Sr. is a chess enthusiast and ...

Just before the big chess tournament, little Naomi Otero needed a pep talk to calm her nerves. Don’t cry if you lose. And shake hands with your opponent if you win, the second-grader heard from her ...

The pawns, rooks and bishops clicked as the teenagers set up their games and, seconds later, the sound of pieces sliding across the board could be heard, followed soon, by shouts of “check,” ...

Chess has been around for 1,500 years but until a couple of summers ago the ancient game was still mostly a mystery to the folks of rural Franklin County, Mississippi. Few had ever played chess before ...