WILTON—For almost a year the Wilton Public Library has hosted a twice-monthly chess club. Assistant librarian Rachel Conner started the club in January 2016 because of her children’s interest in the ...

Filipino-American Grandmaster Wesley So on Sunday hailed Viswanathan Anand as his inspiration, saying that he had no clue how the Indian chess legend was still going strong and was among the best in ...

CLASSIC chess books inspire imitators. The 2004 versions range from worthy successors to impostors. There have been many imitations of “Logical Chess Move by Move,” in which Irving Chernev analyzed ...

From visual exercises to solving the famous Eight Queens problem, explore how chess sharpens your mathematical reasoning and strategic thinking Chess is often seen as a tool to aid rational thinking ...

Chess is not necessarily a game reserved for people with IQ scores on par with Einstein. In fact, chess strategy may rely more heavily on spatial processing than on logic and computational skills.

NORMAL — Nowadays it’s easy to slide a chess board into your pocket and “play anywhere, any time” so J.W. Black is never far from the action.