NORMAL - As Bekah Nielsen sat at a checkered board-game Saturday morning she ... Saturday in the 2013 Illinois K-8 Chess Championships at Illinois State University’s Bone Student Center in ...

"The players are now state champions or, in this case, kings of the chess board."After a lot of hard ... That's what I call the ultimate checkmate. "We put all this effort into the sport year ...

The game helped a south Indian community ... instead huddled together around a chess board, competing against loved ones for the high of a checkmate. “Before we knew chess, many [of us] were ...

In 2009, Stephanie Pitcher, then the director of the Utah State Women’s Chess Tournament ... Pitcher set up a board and taught me a lesson: how to checkmate an opponent with two rooks.

A Piedmont Triad high school is celebrating a state championship title. The Atkins High School chess team took home the victory — making it a back-to-back state chess champion. Sign up for our ...