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 ...

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

THOMASVILLE, Pa. — York County native Tim Myers grew up playing chess with his dad and fixing up farm equipment. Now, he's combined these two passions by creating chess pieces out of scrap metal, ...

In the game of chess, every single move contributes to the overall outcome. All 16 pawns—the queen, knights, bishops and others—provide unique value to a player. The queen is the most powerful piece ...

In the 1920s, Marcel Duchamp claimed to no longer be making art, and began to devote considerable time to chess. He’d grown up battling with his older brothers, Raymond and Jacques, and in his later ...