In Dan Starbuck Pelletier’s program, the only kings and pawns in the room move on a black-and-white checkerboard. The playing field that exists outside the room is leveled to make way for the world’s ...

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WASHINGTON — Zahir Muhammad is a nationally ranked chess player who volunteers teaching chess at local schools and camps. He’s also Howard University’s chess coach. And now with social distancing, the ...

The little girl played with the frayed end of her braid while her mom, indignant, presented her case on her daughter’s behalf. “The boy she was playing against was touching the board,” the mom told ...

I learn one of the most useful lessons in chess, not from a beautiful win, but from the discomfort of a bad move.

NEW YORK — 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 ...