My older brother went to the school chess club at school in Minnesota where we live, so when I started first grade at the age of 6 I also started going too. I was drawn into the game and after a few ...

When he started his Vivacity School of Chess a dozen years ago, Aleksandr Kitsis hoped to fill what he saw as a vacuum of quality chess lessons in Greater Cleveland, chess as it was taught back home.

A few "short" years ago, during my sophomore year at The City College of New York, some fellow Caribbean classmates told me that the education department was offering a "free" course, called Thinking ...