This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. To this point, my blog posts have centered on Hikaru Nakamura, the ...

Ray Robson was 3 when his dad, Gary, brought home a checkers-chess set. He had bought it for a few dollars at a Sarasota Kmart, thinking he and his son could leave the chess part for later. Ray was ...

The kid who beat Bobby Fischer's record to become the youngest grandmaster in the history of American chess warms slowly to strangers. But put Ray Robson behind a chess board, and the shy Clearwater ...

HIKARU NAKAMURA and Irina Krush are the 2015 men's and women's U.S. chess champions. In a contest played April 11, Nakamura edged out Ray Robson by one-half point, netting five wins and six draws — ...

Ray Robson, 12-year-old national chess master from Largo, will visit the Clermont Chess Club to play in a simultaneous exhibition against all challengers at noon Saturday at the Kehlor Building, 466 W ...

Position No. 6134: White to play and win. From the game Ray Robson-Eugene Perelshteyn, Spice Cup, Lubbock 2010. Solution to Position No. 6133: Black wins with 1…Rh8! 2 Qe7 Bxh2! 3 Qe6+ (not 3 Rxh2 Qg2 ...

Forget basketball, there's a different collegiate final four going on right now. This weekend, Webster University of St Louis, the University of Texas at Dallas, the University of Maryland, Baltimore ...

CLERMONT — When the Clermont Chess Club conducted its 17th tournament Saturday, participants got to see the highest-rated 8-year-old chess player in the United States in action. Ray Robson of Largo, ...

For a nation that has been searching for a chess icon since Bobby Fischer, the duel between Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So at this year's U.S. Chess Championships was supposed to help re-ignite the ...