Chess is all about strategy, and an HBCU chess club is learning to master the game. Howard University’s chess club has been around since the early 1900s but hasn’t been active in recent years until a ...

In the cutthroat world of college chess, University of Maryland Baltimore County was once as dominant as Duke in basketball or Alabama in football. UMBC was the first school to institutionalize ...

Chess players are breaking the stereotypical school social order in a Missouri college, and the jocks are not happy. Webster University, located in suburban St. Louis, put up a billboard on a freeway ...

WEBSTER GROVES, Mo. — For the sixth time since 2013, Webster University's chess team is the national champion. Webster University came out on top in the President's Cup national collegiate chess ...

"Very few women play chess, and no wonder," Webster University chess coach Susan Polgar said. "When a woman goes into a chess club, she's the only one. It's an unnatural and unhealthy social ...

Stellenbosch University hosted 26 school teams for the World Schools Team Chess Championship African Stage, advancing Uganda, ...

Growing up in the former Yugoslavia, it was pretty much a given that Julian Z. Schuster would learn to play chess at an early age. Most children did. “It was embarrassing if you didn’t,” he says. Now ...

"Very few women play chess, and no wonder," Webster University chess coach Susan Polgar said. "When a woman goes into a chess club, she's the only one. It's an unnatural and unhealthy social ...