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It’s been almost 20 years since IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat the reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, for the first time under standard tournament rules. Since then, chess-playing ...

I never understood the benefits of chess because I never learned to play the game. As a kid I would watch the adults play the game and sit for hours methodically choosing their moves. In fact, I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 16—HIGH POINT — Seven-year-old Casten Christensen-Sharpe doesn't necessarily understand all the benefits he gets from playing ...

Experts say the game is helping children solve problems, forge friendships and build confidence.

Computers have been beating humans at chess for decades, and they’re now so predictably good at it that chess grandmasters won’t even bother to compete against them. But in what feels like a gesture ...

TL;DR: Need a brain boost? Learn to play chess with the Ultimate Beginner to Grandmaster Chess Course Bundle, on sale for 87% off — only $89.99 — as of March 11. There's nothing like a pandemic to ...

My 4-year-old daughter and I were deep in a game of checkers one day about three years ago when her eye drifted to a nearby table. There, a black-and-white board bristled with far more interesting ...

I honestly don't think there's a more boring way to learn chess than Chessmaster: The Art of Learning. Screen after screen is a bland white background with music from your favorite elevator piped in ...

Tianhui “Cindy” Jie, 16, is a junior at Buchholz High School, and her love for the game of chess began at the age of 6. That love has endured, brought her a multitude of awards and recognitions, and ...