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 ...

You can call chess a lot of things – difficult, mind-consuming, everlasting, a metaphor for love and war – but, please, don’t call it boring. People have lost fingers over the friendly little matchup.

STAMFORD — Latham Park patrons can test their strategic thinking this summer. The Downtown Special Services District has donated two chess and checker boards, kept under a protective vinyl covering at ...