Chess instruction launches on Android phones, and Duolingo customers with iPhones will soon be able to play chess against ...

Pittsburgh-based Duolingo announced several upgrades Tuesday to its popular learning app. The intrigue: Duolingo has moved ...

Thanks to the pandemic and hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit, interest in virtual chess has spiked. More Americans now play chess than tennis and golf combined, and most of that is online. In the ...

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Corrected: A previous version of this article referenced the International Chess Federation acronym as ICF. The acronym is FIDE. There are 25 million kids worldwide who play chess competitively, ...

Oliver Roeder is a journalist, author and games player. He is a former senior writer for FiveThirtyEight, where he covered the World Chess Championship and other gaming pursuits. The following is ...

When music, play, movement, creativity, joy and chess – yes, chess – combine with a group of enthusiastic kids, magic happens ...

Levy Rozman answers the internet's burning questions about the game of chess. What's the best opening? How do you become a grandmaster? Was the Queen's Gambit an accurate show? What's the worst move ...

Chess has always been a part of Henry Lien’s life. He’s played it since he was 5 years old or so, his tiny hands just big enough to hold the pieces. He grew up in a part of the Bay Area, Marin, which ...

Last month, Olentangy Berlin middle school student Keya Jha did something no girl her age has ever done before in the United ...