Eight Quail Run School students, armed with chocolate milk, gather around their Expert-ranked coach at a recent chess club practice. Coach Steve Robinson is discussing the Bughouse Blitz and other ...

Last fortnight, we discussed ‘Pattern Recognition in Chess’, aided by basic checkmate patterns like the Back Rank Checkmate with the rook and the Queen. Let us continue where we left off in our ...

‘Check and Mate’... How many times wondered ‘Hey, what exactly does that mean?’ and ‘How do you even make it happen?’ Let’s get right on to it! A ‘Checkmate’ signifies the end of the game, so the ...

Sam Cassidy twirls his red bangs as he contemplates his next move and sets the rook down. “Check.” His opponent, Amera Hemming, reaches out to move her chess piece and freezes her arm above the board ...