“Brooklyn Castle” is a can’t-miss film that doesn’t. It’s a wonderful documentary look at an astonishingly successful public-school chess program that manages to be more moving and heartening than you ...

The award-winning documentary film “Brooklyn Castle” continues to inspire city government officials in Florida, who are trying to incorporate academic chess programs into the lower grades. Learning ...

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“Brooklyn Castle” is the exhilarating story of five students from I.S. 318, a public school in Brooklyn that serves mostly minority students from families living below the poverty line. These students ...

The highest-ranked junior-high chess team in the country — winner of an unprecedented 30 national titles — isn’t ensconced at an elite private school. Instead, it’s found at Brooklyn’s prosaically ...

What if, rather than celebrating football players for smashing each other in physical competition, we revered the smart kids for doing battle with their minds? It might seem like a fantasy, but at ...

This $1.2 million California house is a castle, and the listing makes no qualms about it. The listing boasts a turret with a flag representing the castle, a dungeon with fireplace, a full bar to ...

The teenaged members of the chess team at New York City’s Intermediate 318 are the Yankees of chess. They’ve won 26 national chess titles—more than any other school in the country, which is an ...