chess

The chess teams at Evans Junior High School in Bloomington have done something that has never been done before in state history. Its sixth, seventh, and eighth graders have all won state championships in the same year.

Garrett Scott, a longtime Normal Town Council member, speech pathologist, and chess educator who helped thousands of school children learn and play chess, has died. He was 78.

A popular Netflix miniseries has helped game merchants in central Illinois."The Queen's Gambit" is about a chess prodigy who comes of age in the Cold War…

Normal West has become the latest intercity school to put its chess program on the map.Three of the top chess programs in Bloomington-Normal all have one…