On the rooftop patio of the Central Library of the Kansas City Public Library, play a game with giant chess pieces. Sometimes you want to leave all the organizations behind and just find a board ...

Armed with designs he found in a book about making wooden chess sets, Pentimone began making ... to complete a chess set that celebrates Kansas City architecture, with the sky stations of Bartle ...

The only African American in the Missouri Chess Hall of Fame lives here in the Kansas City area. In the 1970s ... skills with old fashioned hard work sets them up to succeed.

Jessica Lauser, a three-time U.S. blind chess champion, in her Kansas City, Mo., apartment.Credit ... Her visual field is limited, and the chess pieces appear blurred and distorted.