Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the Friday evening of Dec. 8, New York native Justus Williams arrived at the Detroit Institute of Arts dressed to impress in a ...

In just four years, Bronx native Justus Williams went from chess novice to being awarded the level of chess master by the United States Chess Federation at age 12, becoming the youngest African ...

There are 47,000 members of the United States Chess Federation and fewer than 2 percent of them are excellent enough players to be called “masters.” Of those masters, just 13 of them are under the age ...

SAINT LOUIS, Missouri (WABC) -- A man from the Bronx who became a ground-breaking chess champion at a young age believes in the possibilities that come from playing the game -- and he's taking his ...

WASHINGTON – Take on one of the youngest chess masters in America. Check. Students involved in the after-school program Chess Challenge in D.C. got a rare chance to learn from — if not be humbled by — ...

Going up against the top chess players at Horace Mann, Stuyvesant and other elite high schools from across the country, three kids from a little known high school in the South Bronx weren’t given much ...

Unfortunately you've used all of your gifts this month. Your counter will reset on the first day of next month. A chess tournament organized by the administration at the St. Louis County jail who also ...

Take a bow, Justus Williams, James Black, Isaac Barayev and Matthew Kluska, stalwarts of the Intermediate School 318 Eugenio Maria de Hostos chess team out of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Though only in ...

On the Friday evening of Dec. 8, New York native Justus Williams arrived at the Detroit Institute of Arts dressed to impress in a crisp black suit and brown dress shoes for his chess date with 50 ...