Chess provides a unique place for coaches and executives in other sports to map human intuition with machine-generated probabilities for faster, unbiased decisions.

Newcomers to chess should consider learning the following openings to ensure they get off to a good start as both White and Black.

Chess pieces are assembled on a board at the Albany Chess Center on Sept. 19 in Colonie. Founder John Oyeyemi Fawole and his team operate the center seven days a week and run programming not just at ...

But the problem is that, given how rare genius is even when better identified, such schemes are by their nature poorly targeted. A more practical focus is the point at which talent first becomes ...