Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated photo released by Charlotte Chess Center shows Daniel Naroditsky playing chess on the board. (Kelly Centrelli / ...

Mr Siddharth Jagadeesh’s chess career began at age six with a question to his father. “What is so special about that game?

Alan Kirshner, a youth chess tournament organizer and political science professor, had for years been evasive when asked if he'd ever seen a chess "prodigy." That changed when he first saw San Mateo’s ...