Two people hunched over a black and white checkered board, deliberating what moves they will make, how their opponent might counter and how they might counter that counter, with barely a flicker of ...

American Assn. Chess Club in Glendale and Los Angeles. Like us, there are several hundred kids who attend this club and play in tournaments nationwide. We are always looking for new places to play ...

The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 106, No. 3 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 321-351 (31 pages) Current theories of chess expertise assume that experts can recall meaningful chess positions so well because ...

Russian chess master Ilya Korzhenevich started playing at age 6 in Moscow. At 10 he could beat his father. This summer Korzhenevich will be teaching chess to children ages 8 through 14 at Harper ...

Beth learns to play chess from a janitor named Mr. Shaibol, who works at the orphanage where she spends her childhood. After she is adopted, Beth begins to partake in competitive chess competitions.