Into this moment comes Jennifer Shahade, twice US women’s chess champion and professional poker player, armed with a pickaxe, ...

To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

The e-ink display is perfect for chess, whether you're playing solo, online, or against the person next to you.

The top U.S. chess player discusses his YouTube channel, how he would change the game and why he doesn't want his son to ...

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2026 with 324 to follow. The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury ...

In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue faced off against Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess mind on Earth — and changed history.

Ahead of his interaction with school students at the Exide Kolkata Literary Meet, Prasun Chaudhuri catches up with Viswanathan Anand ...

The Picochess chess program already has a long and storied history behind it—something you should be aware of if you’re looking to download and use it to play chess with on Raspberry Pi. After years ...

Chess was first invented in India around the 6th century AD. The early version of this game was called Chaturanga, a Sanskrit word that means “four divisions of the army”. These divisions stood for ...

As the chess world grieves the death of 29-year-old grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky – including those who marveled at his brilliance from his days as a first grader in Foster City to his graduation from ...

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When you need a couple of on-camera ambassadors for the game of chess, you won’t do better than the Botez sisters. Alexandra, 29, and Andrea, 23, have been playing since they were barely out of ...