RICHARDSON, Texas — As the Texas Rangers began their opening day celebrations on Thursday with all the pomp and circumstance due to a winner of last year's World Series, a team at UT Dallas was also ...

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 ...

In 1991, Alan Sherman took over the chess club at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. Since then, he’s built America’s greatest college chess program ever. Sherman’s school has gotten some ...

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 ...