Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster who started as a child prodigy and quickly became one of the most influential American voices in the sport, died Monday. He was 29. The Charlotte Chess Center in ...

Alan Kirshner, a youth chess tournament organizer and political science professor, had for years been evasive when asked if he'd ever seen a chess "prodigy." That changed when he first saw San Mateo’s ...

Years ago, when her eighth-graders struggled with basic subtraction, teacher Rita Frenzel tried something different: She taught them chess. The math scores climbed, and so did a passion that would ...