The kings of the elementary school chess world now wear backpacks from Brooklyn. A team of six public school students from PS 130, The Parkside School in Windsor Terrace, pulled off a brainy upset for ...

Some days, Brooklyn’s chess queen can’t help feeling like a pawn. Rochelle Ballantyne, a former child prodigy who was featured prominently in a chess documentary as a 13-year-old, is trying to hold ...

David Rybstien advises his son, Aaron, to bring out the white-squares bishop from the back file before pushing a pawn to D-3. Otherwise, the bigger piece will be trapped and useless too long into the ...

PARK SLOPE, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Students at a school in Brooklyn were anxious to play the game of chess after receiving the chess sets Wednesday. Boxes and boxes of chess sets were delivered to PS 10 ...

The award-winning documentary film “Brooklyn Castle” continues to inspire city government officials in Florida, who are trying to incorporate academic chess programs into the lower grades. Learning ...

The teenaged members of the chess team at New York City’s Intermediate 318 are the Yankees of chess. They’ve won 26 national chess titles—more than any other school in the country, which is an ...