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 ...

The highest-ranked junior-high chess team in the country — winner of an unprecedented 30 national titles — isn’t ensconced at an elite private school. Instead, it’s found at Brooklyn’s prosaically ...

If you want reassurance that not everything about American public education is hopelessly broken — and if you want to see what may well be the most optimistic, inspiring and downright thrilling movie ...

“Brooklyn Castle” is a can’t-miss film that doesn’t. It’s a wonderful documentary look at an astonishingly successful public-school chess program that manages to be more moving and heartening than you ...

At the I.S. 318 middle school in Brooklyn, 65 percent of students live below the federal poverty level. Yet despite the odds, the school has the highest ranked junior high chess team in the country ...

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...

Documentaries have developed a new mini-genre in the last few years: kids in competition. In "Spellbound" it was a spelling bee. In "First Position" it was ballet. Now it's chess in "Brooklyn Castle." ...

Brooklyn Castle, which I originally saw at the South By Southwest Film Festival in March, is one of my favorite movies of the year. And starting this week, it's coming to theaters in select cities.