Ernest Levert Jr., right, a Columbus East Side resident and founding director of The Royal Oak Initiative, plays chess with Dylan Jian, of Columbus, during Upper Cup Chess open play at The Cooperative ...

Centuries of wisdom about chess endgames — the established truths about who will win or draw when the game comes down to its last pieces — have suddenly been overthrown by a few weeks of work by ...

When 13-year-old Joshua Doknjas of Surrey, B.C. submitted his first article to the prestigious New in Chess Yearbook, his publisher asked for a photo. “I remember they were very surprised, and they ...

The reggae beats of Bob Marley's "Could You Be Loved" are punctuated by the sound of rain each time someone opens the door to the Cooperative Chess Cultural Center in Columbus' Olde Towne East. It's a ...

The request was a bit unusual. "Can you come to my house for a play date? Attempting to seal the deal, the four-year-old boy adds, "I'll teach you how to play chess." I respond with a "that would be ...