Two of the world’s best chess players took on 26 kids Monday in a match of speed chess, a prelude to a three-day invitational in Santa Rosa. The boy rested his head on a picnic table overlooking a ...

Brahmin Brown didn’t waste any time. Peering up at a chess grandmaster through his glasses, the Hillcrest Academy second-grader raised his hand and asked — point blank — when he’d get his opportunity ...