Some of the students at Monfort Elementary School can barely remember a time before the giant chess and checkers set appeared on their playground. It has only been about two months since they were ...

The City of Greenville and Sheppard Memorial Library held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday to officially open the new outdoor chess park on the library's central lawn on Tuesday. Citizens will have ...

In terms of equipment, chess and checkers are simple games — just a handful of pieces and a checkered gameboard. The simplicity belies the underlying complexity of the games, though, and goes a long ...

Think about the games of chess versus checkers. The checkers player approaches the game in a very straightforward way. All of the pieces look the same and they all have the same abilities. It is like ...