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 ...

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 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 ...

Brooklyn Castle, which I originally saw at the South By Southwest Film Festival in March, is one of my favorite movies of the year. And starting this week, it's coming to theaters in select cities.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Documentaries have developed a new mini-genre in the last few years: kids in competition. In "Spellbound" it was a spelling bee. In "First Position" it was ballet. Now it's chess in "Brooklyn Castle." ...