1. Each turn is referred to as a “news cycle.” 2. One side retains the pieces used in standard chess; the other side consists entirely of pawns. The player with only pawns is nevertheless loudly and ...

In the game between chess and artificial intelligence, Google DeepMind’s researchers have made yet another move, this time teaming up with ex-chess world champion Vladimir Kramnik to design and trial ...

Chess is a game of seemingly endless complexity, each new match expanding into an intricate weave of strategies, gambits, and countermoves. It only gets stranger if you decide to throw out the ...

As many of you surely know by now, the European Chess Union has established dress-code rules for chess players. (Okay, some of you don’t know – you don’t follow chess and you don’t think it’s a sport.

Chess was invented around 1,500 years ago in India, and the game's lasting popularity is a pretty solid testament to its success. States rise and fall, real wars come and go, and still chess endures ...