Jamie Yuccas is a CBS News correspondent based in Los Angeles. Yuccas joined CBS News as a New York-based correspondent for CBS Newspath in August 2015. Her reporting has been featured across all CBS ...

NEW YORK — Maurice Ashley, who became the first Black chess grandmaster in 1999, is using the game of chess to teach life lessons. Ashley fell in love with chess as a 14-year-old high school student ...

The first thing one might say about David MacEnulty’s new book, "Sunrise in the Bronx: Chess and Life Lessons from the South Bronx to the White House," is that the author seems to be a ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — At the Saint Louis Chess Club, every day brings new choices and more and more people are seeing value in that. "We have about a thousand members and I think 20 or 30,000 go to ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A summer youth camp is checkmating boredom by teaching kids how to play chess. At just 8 years old, Coale Devish is no stranger to the game of chess. He said he’s been ...

A chessboard with black and white boxes and 32 pieces are the tools that Teglia found to face violence and marginality. He shared his method with children and teenagers from vulnerable areas and ...

There was no mistaking the enthusiasm of the tall, heavyset man who held the floor Monday afternoon at Gadsden’s Floyd Elementary School. There was no mistaking his message, either: “You are somebody ...

For the last two weeks we have been extrapolating many disciplines for life from the profound game of chess. Before we continue, I thought I’d share with you an interesting chess vignette of my own.

(CBS Detroit) – The Detroit City Chess Club is teaching kids comradery, focus, and how to outsmart their opponents. Coach Kevin Fite says, "Competition is what we do in life, we compete for everything ...

"Hola, ajedrez" means "Hello, chess" in Spanish. You've always been able to learn Spanish on Duolingo. And you'll be able to learn and practice chess on the language learning app soon. Duolingo ...