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You're not supposed to play chess on a Kindle, but I do it anyway

The e-ink display is perfect for chess, whether you're playing solo, online, or against the person next to you.

Homemade chess board moves its own pieces. And wins.

To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

Thinking Sideways — can chess help us make better choices in life?

Into this moment comes Jennifer Shahade, twice US women’s chess champion and professional poker player, armed with a pickaxe, ...
Education Week

How Playing Chess Can Boost Academic Learning

Corrected: A previous version of this article referenced the International Chess Federation acronym as ICF. The acronym is FIDE. There are 25 million kids worldwide who play chess competitively, ...

A supercomputer beat a human chess champ 30 years ago, paving a path for AI dominance

In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue faced off against Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess mind on Earth — and changed history.

Inside the mind of Hikaru Nakamura, the chess world No 2 whose streaming career comes first

The top U.S. chess player discusses his YouTube channel, how he would change the game and why he doesn't want his son to ...

Where Is Judit Polgár Now? How the ‘Queen of Chess’ Became the Youngest Grandmaster and Changed Chess Forever

The Netflix documentary ‘Queen of Chess’ follows the career of groundbreaking women’s player Judit Polgár. Learn about her ...

I quit doomscrolling for chess puzzles and didn't expect this to happen

I found a better obsession ...

In Freestyle Chess World Championship, Magnus Carlsen has found a stage that excites him

It could be the unpredictability of the starts in Chess 960, or just the fact that Carlsen needed to stamp his territory in a ...