I have three chess puzzles for you this week, but you don’t need to know the rules of chess for two of them. These two are variants of the famous eight queens puzzle, which asks solvers to position ...

Puzzles based on the chessboard have been popular since the medieval era, when chess itself first became widely popular. In recent times, a puzzle genre has emerged revolving around the rules of chess ...

For as long as chessboards have existed, there have been puzzles involving chessboards and chess pieces. Some of the most enduring conundrums involve knights. Example of a knight’s tour in which the ...

Adrian Dudek's PhD is supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award and an ANU Supplementary Scholarship. The two activities have plenty in common. In either, one’s success relies strongly on the ...

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 ...