Jamie Yuccas is a CBS News correspondent based in Los Angeles. Yuccas joined CBS News as a New York-based correspondent for CBS Newspath in August 2015. Her reporting has been featured across all CBS ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — At the Saint Louis Chess Club, every day brings new choices and more and more people are seeing value in that. "We have about a thousand members and I think 20 or 30,000 go to ...

In Dan Starbuck Pelletier’s program, the only kings and pawns in the room move on a black-and-white checkerboard. The playing field that exists outside the room is leveled to make way for the world’s ...

A chessboard with black and white boxes and 32 pieces are the tools that Teglia found to face violence and marginality. He shared his method with children and teenagers from vulnerable areas and ...

Compton, California — Chess is a game of make-believe kings and queens, pawns and rooks. So what does that have to do with real life? Turns out, quite a bit. For 12-year-old Andre, chess is more than ...

Air Force veteran and former Alabama state trooper Orrin Hudson was selling cars in the 1990s when he read about people being shot over $2,400. “When I saw that story, I knew that even though the ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A summer youth camp is checkmating boredom by teaching kids how to play chess. At just 8 years old, Coale Devish is no stranger to the game of chess. He said he’s been ...

The children sit on the floor, mildly wiggling, as their teacher starts the class. "Today's lesson is getting you to find the pressure point," David Brooks begins, talking so fast that it sounds like ...

Fifth-grader Owen Johnston considers his options during a game of chess Thursday at Greenmont Elementary School. Students in Kevin Mace’s STEAM class learned how to play chess this past week in ...

LOS ANGELES- “Knights of the South Bronx,” an A&E movie premiering at 8 p.m. Tuesday, is based on a true-life tale about how a teacher used chess to inspire inner-city kids. Its star, Ted Danson, ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Young Austinites are getting a chance to learn the classic game of chess at the George Washington Carver Museum. The chess program is part of an Austin Parks and Recreation program ...