When 17-year-old Griffin McConnell was named national chess master in March, it was a major achievement — especially since he earned the prestigious title after undergoing his fourth brain surgery ...

Years before the notion of starting a software company ever entered my mind, I briefly toyed with the idea of becoming a professional chess player. At the age of 19 as a sophomore in college, I tied ...

Not everyone gets to meet their idols — or compete against them. When Alice Lee was growing up, she watched Irina Krush, the first woman to earn the title of Grandmaster while playing for the United ...

Jennifer Bisset was a senior editor for CNET. She covered film and TV news and reviews. The movie that inspired her to want a career in film is Lost in Translation. She won Best New Journalist in 2019 ...

Reporting from Santa Clara, Calif. -- The two chess masters hunched over their royal armies, lost in thought. On one side, playing white, was 10-year-old Sam Sevian, who a few months ago became the ...

Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a 10-year-old in New York, just became the country's newest national chess master. At the Fairfield County Chess Club Championship tournament in Connecticut on May 1, Adewumi won ...