| CBS News: Chess instills new dreams in kids from rural Mississippi county |
 | | Grade-school chess teams from Franklin County, Mississippi, blow past stereotypes about who can play chess and win national recognition. |
| NC lawmakers humbled and inspired by young chess players |
 | | More than 20 young chess players took over part of the Legislative Building in Raleigh to bring public awareness of the educational benefits of youth chess programs. Along the way, every lawmaker was invited to participate in chess matches against the students that taught the adults some lessons about humility. |
| Vassily Ivanchuk is new World Champion in Rapid Chess |
 | | The World Rapid Championships in Doha, Qatar, had a dramatic finish. Before the last round five players shared the lead with 10.0/14. Source: Chess Base |
| Rapport vs Wei Yi: Spectacular Match In China |
 | | On Friday, GM Richard Rapport won a friendly match against GM Wei Yi. The match, held in China, provided exactly the entertainment you would expect from these two young and fighting players. Source: Chess.com |
| Wesley So, double winner in London |
 | | Winning the Grand Chess Tour is a great achievement for Wesley So. On Sunday he also secured first place in London - so he won 295.000 $ in total. Source : Chess Base. |
| Is Magnus Carlsen A Chess Artist? |
 | | Magnus Carlsen became known to the world as a chess artist... I dubbed him the Mozart of chess in the Washington Post and soon the moniker spread around the globe. Source : The Huffington Post |
| 8 lessons we teach kids, and ourselves, through the game of chess |
 | | From the opening move it was going to be an epic weekend. My 5-year-old son and I home alone. Usually a recipe for adventure, and a few moments of concern. Our tradition is turning the lower level of our house into a G-rated man-cave. By the time mom returns home on Monday everything should be back in place. Hopefully. |
| New 'Queen of Katwe' Trailer |
 | | The upcoming drama Queen of Katwe has the potential to inspire some serious tears, at least from the looks of the first trailer Disney released in May. The inspirational tale follows the real-life journey of Phiona Mutesi, a Ugandan girl who beat incredible odds on her way to becoming a world chess champion. |
| ChessStream New Feature: Notation Booster |
 | | We just added a new page called Notation Booster. You can replay a game by reading the notation and moving piece in the board. It will boost your notation skill because your chess brain needs to associate notation to board coordinate. Try it! |
| AI-Powered Apps That’ll School You in the Ways of Chess and Go |
 | | HUMANS ARE LOSING. Last week artificial intelligence, for the first time in history, secured a definitive victory over a grandmaster Go player. While chess playing humans were outpaced by computer brains almost two decades ago, Go is multitudes more complex than chess, with an estimated 10761 possible games (Chess tops out around 10120). |
| More Than the Next Move - Chess Builds Skills |
 | | Thornapple Kellogg Schools, MI — Research has shown students who play chess do well at several things. They are better problem-solvers; have improved concentration and memory; higher spatial reasoning, reading and math skills; and increased logic, creativity and strategic planning. |
