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." ...

NYC school kids earn the nickname "Yankees of Chess," showcasing their talent in the game.

At the I.S. 318 middle school in Brooklyn, 65 percent of students live below the federal poverty level. Yet despite the odds, the school has the highest ranked junior high chess team in the country ...

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.

“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 ...

Early in “Brooklyn Castle,” a film about the championship chess team at high-poverty, racially diverse Intermediate School 318 in New York City, the principal observes that “in some schools, if you go ...

“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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...