St. Louis Chess Club

More than 100 St. Louis Public Schools students from 27 schools competed in the contest to name the next SLPS chess grandmaster.

In an exclusive in the Wall Street Journal, reporters Andrew Beaton and Joshua Robinson report one of the game's top competition providers will no longer work with the St. Louis Chess Club over allegations the club overlooked accusations of sexual misconduct against a top grandmaster.

St. Louis-based chess player Thalia Cervantes Landeiro shares how she was introduced to chess in her hometown of Havana, Cuba, and then moved to St. Louis.

The governing body of chess in the U.S. will bring its headquarters to St. Louis this year.

The world's top chess players won't have to compete virtually in this Grand Chess Tour event.

The World Chess Hall of Fame's most recent exhibition, “Masterminds: Chess Prodigies," explores the stories of chess prodigies from past to present.

St. Louis chess organizations are moving their event online to be a virtual gala to advance the game of chess through education, art and culture.

For three years, the St. Louis Chess Club's CHESS Cops program has brought police officers and students from underrepresented communities together to play chess. Research shows the program is making a difference.

The St. Louis Chess Club experimented with its first in-person tournament since the pandemic began.

Playing chess may seem like a solitary endeavor. But it actually provides a community and unique social connections.