An 8-year-old recently beat a 37-year-old grandmaster. NPR's Scott Detrow talks with ChessKid.com's Mike Klein about the new generation of whiz kids. So when I was 8 years old, I'm pretty sure my ...

A child prodigy has set a new record in the chess world by besting a grandmaster nearly 30 years older than him on Sunday. At just 8-years-old, Singaporean chess prodigy Ashwath Kaushik became the ...

Summer vacation brings ample free time and during this time you can do a lot of things — create or make crafts, do online courses, learn languages and learn how to play a board game that you haven’t ...

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 ...

On a March NPR “All Things Considered” broadcast, host Scott Detrow interviewed Mike Klein, an accomplished chess player, coach and spokesperson for ChessKid.com. The site is geared toward chess ...

"It's surreal," said the boy's father, who doesn't play the game Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2019. His work has previously appeared in Rolling Stone, The ...