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 ...

Sometimes a game is so simple in concept that it’s difficult to find the right words to describe it. It’s also worth keeping in mind that simplicity is not always a bad thing, and it can often work in ...

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The millennia-old pastime of chess has been enjoying an explosion of interest. Whether people are longing for any engaging hobby to keep themselves sane during the long wait, or they fell prey to a ...

Chess Game With Answers: Chess is a game of strategy and tactics that has been played for centuries. It is a game of two players, each of whom controls 16 pieces on a chess board of 64 squares. The ...

Duolingo has launched its Chess Player-vs-Player or PvP mode on Android, expanding access to its beginner-focused chess course following its iOS debut in late ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...

Chess Game With Answers: Chess is a board game for two players played on a checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. The game is played by millions of people worldwide.