Well-executed starting moves in chess can tip a game’s outcome, and players often rely on tried-and-true openers. Those openers may not work well in Chess960, a chess variant that scrambles the ...

Timur Gareyev was just moves into a world record 48-board simultaneous blindfold chess exhibition in Las Vegas when he decided to change tactics. “I was like, OK, I’m just going to try to go ...

The remarkable benefits of chess, according to Dr. Gregory Ward, could potentially help athletes better understand and manage ...

Neither VFX supervisor John Mangia nor VFX producer Arissa Blasingame were chess masters before joining Netflix’s limited series “The Queen’s Gambit,” but they learned about the game once ...

For his analysis, Barthelemy chose to represent chess as a decision tree in which each "branch" leads to a win, loss, or draw. Players face the challenge of finding the best move amid all this ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have designed a new AI model that understands how humans perceive creativity in chess. In a recent paper presented at an international conference, researchers ...

Cognitive development and academic independence are but two of the benefits gained by students who learn how to play chess, writes Salome Thomas-EL. Chess: The Best Move for Students (Opinion) ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. As a young child, Zoe Dinnerstein spent a lot of time playing chess with ...