WAUSAU — The key to winning a chess game is marshaling and protecting your power pieces in the early phase of the match, so they are prepared to strike when you need them at the end. That’s part of ...

Over a rollup chess mat on a Franklin Park picnic table, Loren Schmidt brightens while speaking about the Alekhine's Defence, one of his favorite openings. Schmidt, a Heritage University professor and ...

On a typical day after school, 16-year-old Avi Kaplan can often be found sitting around a table with friends in the throes of a game at his school’s chess club, where he might be sharing a winning ...

When Aradh Kaur's grandpa taught her and her older brother how to play chess when they were young, he thought he was just teaching his grandkids a new hobby. Kaur doesn't think her grandfather — who ...