MATTHEW BAKER The News-Tribune LASALLE, Ill. White goes first and the game is on as two strangers face off over a rollup chessboard on a chilly afternoon in the old cafeteria at La Salle-Peru Township High School. The competitors attempt to talk although their focus in on the 32 plastic pieces being used to attack and defend. It doesn't take long before 15-year-old Tristan Martin of La Salle has ...

Polgar, a world and Olympic chess champion, will transfer her Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence to Webster University starting June 1

Polgar, a world and Olympic chess champion, will transfer her Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence to Webster University starting June 1

Susan Polgar and her national champion chess team are leaving Texas Tech, headed to Webster University in St. Louis.

Chess masters will make their move when the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) hosts the 2012 State Chess Tournament Feb. 10-11 at the Peoria Civic Center.  A total of 138 high school chess teams, including some from several area schools, have entered the tournament.

A six-year-old boy takes part in his first chess tournament playing against adults.

It's hard to imagine that the local competitive chess scene could get any more spirited.

Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran was denied a podium finish by Nigel Short of England in the 10th and final round of Tradewise Gibraltar chess tournament, which concluded in Gibraltar.

Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian is winner of the 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament in the Netherlands.

PEORIA, Ill. -- The Illinois High School Association State Chess Tournament will be returning to Peoria in February.

Vietnam’s number one chess player Le Quang Liem lost to the world female champion, Chinese Hou Yifan, in the eighth round of the 2012 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival on Tuesday.

Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran got the better of Richard Rapport of Hungary to jump to joint second spot after the end of the ninth and penultimate round of Tradewise Gibraltar chess festival in Gibraltar.

Older Group boys at the Antioch School began lobbying about a year ago to make chess the focus of the school’s annual artist-in-residency for the annual Emily Bailey arts residency.

Mo knows chess. Kevin Mo, 17, of McCandless is the region's best chess player under 18 and ranked No. 13 in the state among all players.  read more »

Vietnam’s top chess Grandmaster Le Quang Liem earned an important victory over Tamir Nabaty of Israel in the seventh round of the 2012 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival Monday.

Bloomington City Councilmember Steve Volan prepares to teach chess to IU students.

SAN BENITO — San Benito High School’s chess team will move to the state competition in Dallas after defeating Brownsville’s traditional powerhouse teams to win the Region 8 Chess Tournament here Sunday. Miller Jordan Middle School’s runner-up...

Chess prodigy eventually descended into madness

SAN BENITO — San Benito High School’s chess team will move to the state competition in Dallas after defeating Brownsville’s traditional powerhouse teams to win the Region 8 Chess Tournament here Sunday.Miller Jordan Middle School’s runner-up...

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