The Conversation

A chess program helped this 8‑year‑old raise $240,000 and get his family out of a homeless shelter – here’s what to look for in a chess program for your child

Third-grader Tanitoluwa Adewumi was crowned as a New York State Scholastic chess champion on March 10. GoFundMe Before he won the primary (K-3) championship section of the New York State Scholastic ...
International Chess Federation

Chess in Schools Worldwide: Reach, Structure and Evidence in 100 countries

Chess has a long history in schools, yet the field has lacked a global account of how school chess programs are organized, ...
Inside The Games

FIDE celebrates Kakuma Chess Program milestones

The program is now well on its way to establishing a sustainable operational infrastructure, expanding its impact while enhancing visibility for chess as a tool for development and empowerment thanks ...
Exclaim!

RZA Donates to Chess Program for At-Risk Youth in Missouri

Wu-Tang Clan mastermind RZA has always shown us "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'" and now he'll take that knowledge to the next level, funding a new chess program for at-risk youth. The competitive chess ...
Hackaday

Writing A Very Tiny Chess Program

When programming for modern platforms, the restraints are different to those of 30 years ago. Back in the dawn of the microcomputer age, storage and RAM were measured in kilobytes. It simply wasn’t ...
Bernews

‘Queen’s Gambit’ Chess Program Launched

The Bermuda Chess Association is promoting the Queen’s Gambit Challenge, a free online coaching program for women by the World Chess Governing Body, FIDE. A spokesperson said, “Chess is steadily ...