Lon Newman is a volunteer who helped get the tournament to MCF Stillwater. "Regardless of position, disability, race, culture, everybody can play chess," he said. Newman says he hopes to eventually ...

Take Take Take, named after the back-and-forth exchanges of chess pieces, has a well-known list of investors including Peter ...

and light touch analysis will scoop up causal viewers put off by chess’s sometimes rarefied air. The free app was launched in a bid to build the user base ahead of trying to monetizing it.

The weekend kicks off at 7 p.m. Friday, March 28, with a free screening of "Searching for Bobby Fischer," a heartwarming film about a young chess prodigy that captures the beauty and challenges of ...