Chess players are breaking the stereotypical school social order in a Missouri college, and the jocks are not happy. Webster University, located in suburban St. Louis, put up a billboard on a freeway ...

San Juan College announced that it has joined the Collaborative for Higher Education Shared Services, a nonprofit organization that includes four other community colleges and one four-year college in ...

You may remember a bizarre story two years ago about a Texas Tech chess coach and her entire team transferring to another school. Like nearly everything in college athletics, their move was about ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - It was one of the most brazen moves in the chess world since the Najdorf Sicilian Defense, perhaps even the Blackmar Diemer Gambit. Fresh off her second straight national ...

Arhaan Ansari is heading to the Windy City to compete for a national championship in chess.

The arms race in collegiate chess — a cutthroat world once dominated by the University of Maryland Baltimore County — is generating new scrutiny following revelations that a high-powered coach at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2004, after her first chess tournament in Philadelphia, tenth grader Emily Chu wanted to find a way to bring the competition ...