Euclidean geometry is the kind you were taught at school, the world of sines and cosines, and the square on the hypotenuse ...

Thanks to the pandemic and hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit, interest in virtual chess has spiked. More Americans now play chess than tennis and golf combined, and most of that is online. In the ...

The game of chess has long been central to computer science and AI-related research, most notably in IBM’s Deep Blue in the 1990s and, more recently, AlphaZero. But the game is about more than ...

Chess has recently been enjoying a spike in popularity. This is predominantly thanks to the Netflix series Queen's Gambit, as well as the rise of chess streamers and chess competitions on Twitch that ...

Just released on Steam is Non-Euclidean Chess, a twist on the most archetypal and greatest turn-based strategy game of all time that turns the whole concept of chess upside-down - literally, in some ...

Board games cover a lot of ground; they can be as simple as checkers, or as complex as Monopoly. They can even revolve around the collection of cards, such as in Magic the Gathering. Ironically, many ...

On 26 November 1844, two chess teams faced off while separated by 60 kilometers, as the Washington Chess Club played a team in Baltimore using the newly built electrical telegraph. Three consulting ...

The sounds of a late-night game around New York City. People gather in Union Square to play chess.Credit...Sabrina Santiago for The New York Times Supported by By Julia Carmel Chess can be a nearly ...

From Netflix shows such as “The Queen’s Gambit” to its rock and roll superstar Magnus Carlsen, the popularity of chess has never been stronger. As the game embraces the digital world, chess has only ...