Eleven of the Pennsylvania State Chess Federation’s top 30 players live in Pittsburgh. Carnegie Mellon University doctoral student Lufei Ruan, 23, poses behind a chess board in Pittsburgh after nearly ...

A tiebreaker determined the winner of the state Scholastic Chess Championship’s K-8 Open Section. “It all came down to the very last game, and I was very nervous,” Benjamin Lin said, recalling that ...

Chandler Monelli of Bendersville, a student at Carlisle Christian Academy, won first place and the state title in the K-12 U1000 chess tournament at the 2009 Pennsylvania State Scholastic ...

Members of the Adams County New Oxford High School chess team sprawled in the lobby of Clarion Hotel and Convention Center Saturday playing 10-minute games of quick chess between longer rounds of ...