The award-winning documentary film “Brooklyn Castle” continues to inspire city government officials in Florida, who are trying to incorporate academic chess programs into the lower grades. Learning ...

QUINCY − He's asked for space in city offices, libraries, community centers, businesses, at least a dozen churches. No luck. "I've been trying for years," said Quincy chess instructor Mike Yezukevich, ...

Early in “Brooklyn Castle,” a film about the championship chess team at high-poverty, racially diverse Intermediate School 318 in New York City, the principal observes that “in some schools, if you go ...

“Brooklyn Castle” is the exhilarating story of five students from I.S. 318, a public school in Brooklyn that serves mostly minority students from families living below the poverty line. These students ...

He’s glimpsed only briefly in Brooklyn Castle, Katie Dellamaggiore’s magnanimous look into the agonies and ecstasies of the country’s top-rated junior high chess team, but the specter of Bobby Fischer ...

What if, rather than celebrating football players for smashing each other in physical competition, we revered the smart kids for doing battle with their minds? It might seem like a fantasy, but at ...

This $1.2 million California house is a castle, and the listing makes no qualms about it. The listing boasts a turret with a flag representing the castle, a dungeon with fireplace, a full bar to ...

The teenaged members of the chess team at New York City’s Intermediate 318 are the Yankees of chess. They’ve won 26 national chess titles—more than any other school in the country, which is an ...