New research using chess960 shows that changing the starting layout can rebalance chess and alter how difficult early ...

Decades ago, I invented an educational game that resembled our complicated legal system. Because of my experience with this game, I was excited by recent reports that chess has recently become ...

About nine months ago Lenard Seawood started the Every Move Counts nonprofit startup to use the game of chess to help improve the lives of children in Stockton. When he was in the Army, stationed in ...

In November of 2020, I sent a direct message on Twitter to a British man named Phil Makepeace. “Hi!” I wrote. “I need a chess coach! Are you the person to talk to?” I knew that Phil was a professional ...

It took about 50 years for computers to eviscerate humans in the venerable game of chess. A standard smartphone can now play the kind of moves that make a grandmaster’s head spin. But one artificial ...