Romanian chess grandmaster Cristian Chirila has been playing chess since he was 5 years old. Now, he will become the coach for MU’s first competitive chess team. Next fall, the team, under Chirila’s ...

"It's surreal," said the boy's father, who doesn't play the game Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2019. His work has previously appeared in Rolling Stone, The ...

A 10-year-old chess prodigy has made history as the youngest female player ever to defeat a grandmaster, which is the highest distinction any chess player can earn. Bodhana Sivanandan earned the ...

A teenage chess grandmaster was arrested and disqualified from a championship tournament for allegedly punching a woman during a post-loss tantrum. Christopher Yoo, 17, allegedly crumpled his score ...