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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--International Master Levy Rozman (@GothamChess) announced today the recipients of the "Levy Rozman Scholarship Fund." More than 100 schools applied and the ...

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 ...

Pandemic boredom and a Netflix mini-series, “The Queen’s Gambit,” added to the game’s sudden popularity. But Chess.com was also plotting its own moves. Danny Rensch, left, chief chess officer of Chess ...

A US-based online chess platform chesskid.com on Thursday launched its Indian edition under the mentorship of Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand. Under Anand’s guidance, chesskid.com would release ...