"Chess is the great equalizer," Principal Salome Thomas-El said. A principal at an economically disadvantaged school has spent more than 30 years teaching his students life lessons through the game of ...

Chetan Cherukuri, junior at Whitney Young High School, recently won first place in a national chess tournament and started an online platform, Courtyard Chess, to teach Chicago kids to learn how to ...

As Chandna tests his student’s comprehension, he glances down through clear frame glasses at the array of green and white squares before him. At the beginning of the lesson, he had unsheathed this ...

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