Nearly 20 years ago, I wrote about a chess-teaching program aimed at children ages 8 and up. It used various arcade-like games to teach kids how chess pieces moved and captured. It was a new concept ...

Jamie Yuccas is a CBS News correspondent based in Los Angeles. Yuccas joined CBS News as a New York-based correspondent for CBS Newspath in August 2015. Her reporting has been featured across all CBS ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maurice Ashley, who became the first Black chess grandmaster in 1999, is using the game of chess to teach life lessons. Ashley fell in love with chess as a 14-year-old high school student after ...

ST. PAUL -- Fourth-graders at William Byrne Elementary sat on the carpeted floor as they concentrated on where to maneuver the 32 chess pieces on the game board. They focused overthrowing their ...

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (WCSC) - One high school teacher in Summerville uses chess to teach her students about strategy, planning and connection. James Carroll teaches eleventh-grade U.S. History and ...