Calix Marchand learned a new game at daycare when he was four. "I remember coming back home and telling my dad about it and saying, like, I played this game with a king and a queen and a knight," he ...

At Madison’s Trust Elementary School in Ashburn, Virginia, students are swapping screens for strategy at the Silver Knights Chess Academy’s after-school club.

Seasoned chess players can relate to the legendary Paul Morphy, the “pride and sorrow of chess”, through Morphy numbers, a chain of games played by others. Morphy himself is 0, his direct opponents ...

On Thursday, though, McIlroy made a brilliant, last-ditch chess move to get the U.S. fans on his side. The reigning Masters ...