South Texas is the chess capital of the state, due in large part to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Its chess team is preparing to defend its national title in competitive collegiate chess.

New Delhi [India], March 17: For thousands of competitive chess players, progress often slows just when the game begins to get serious. After mastering fundamentals and early tactics, many players ...

The young chess player reached instinctively toward his threatened king, scanning the board for safe haven — until his instructor stepped in with a question. “If you move your king out of check, what ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Winning a high school state championship takes teamwork, dedication and strategy. Last weekend, the Jesuit High School chess program leveraged all three to win big at the 2026 Oregon ...

When most people think of early video games, they likely picture the 1980s, when plenty of popular games were released. Still, games got their start in 1958, and between then and 1979, plenty of ...

Black-and-white chess pieces move with precision as Garcia Elementary School fifth grader Elyza Camargo studies the chessboard, already thinking two steps ahead. During a recent after-school day, a ...

A Chess Day event at the Ontario Center welcomed more than 30 participants for a day of rated competition, casual play, instruction, and community engagement. (Submitted photo) ONTARIO — Chess Bus ...

The Detroit City Chess Club visited two middle schools in Opelousas, Louisiana to help launch sustainable chess programs. Retired news anchor Huel Perkins praised the initiative for teaching students ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Detroit City Chess Club delivered new chess kits to students at Creswell Middle School this week to help the "Tigers" ...

Java ranked third in the Tiobe Index for January 2026 at 8.71%, holding steady behind Python and C and just ahead of C++. Tiobe named C# its Programming Language of the Year for 2025 after the largest ...

Chess is a relatively simple game to learn but a very difficult one to master. Because the starting positions of the pieces are fixed, top players have relied on memorizing the "best" opening moves, ...