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 ...

While much of the Princeton University campus was empty for winter break, nearly 175 chess players from across North America gathered in Frick Chemistry Laboratory Dec. 27-30 to compete in the 2012 ...

The Final Four Tournament was a real nail-biter, coming amid controversy over huge coaching salaries and reports of top recruits being stolen. Well, that's big-time collegiate chess. Yes, chess - a ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- 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 championship ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the cutthroat world of college chess, University of Maryland Baltimore County was once as dominant as Duke in basketball or Alabama in football. UMBC was the first school to institutionalize ...

Team members Jonathan Santos, club president and coach, Michael Cortez, Mathew Trujillo, Clifton Edwards, Miles Ricketts and Christian Moore won third place at the 2006 Texas Chess Association Grade ...