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 ...

I spend inordinate amounts of time trying to convince my kids to embrace traits that are completely foreign to me. Patience would top that list. I cannot tell you how often I have yelled in a public ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Compton, California — Chess is a game of make-believe kings and queens, pawns and rooks. So what does that have to do with real ...

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 ...

Davis taught students about how chess drives him to achieve academic and professional success. He is an MIT graduate and has worked with companies like Goldman Sachs. The chess master was joined by ...

“Chess works on character and good sportsmanship,” he said. “The kids are responsible, respectful and they build relationships.” Fazekas said chess encourages critical thinking skills, helps test ...

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 ...

When music, play, movement, creativity, joy and chess – yes, chess – combine with a group of enthusiastic kids, magic happens. Adrienne Tellier founded Musical Chess and launched her unique program in ...

When most people think of chess, they picture elderly gentlemen hunched over boards in the park, contemplating their next ...

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 ...