A special groundbreaking was held Sunday in Seattle’s Rainier Valley neighborhood for a first-in-Seattle Chess Park. The Chess Park is a dream come true for the woman whom the park will be named after ...

It’s endgame for chess enthusiasts at longtime player haunt Chess Park. After five years of unsavory behavior and issues around homelessness, Recreation and Parks Commissioners have voted to remove ...

I’m very sad to hear that Chess Park will be closing. I’m writing this letter because I have a proposal to relocate the chess boards to another place in Santa Monica, perhaps Virginia Park. I’ll tell ...

Koby Portes was driving through Rainier Beach recently when he looked out the window and saw something that blew his mind. A new park dedicated to chess, his personal obsession. “I have to go here!” ...