Solve This Chess Puzzle if You Are a Genius. In this chess video, I will show you an amazing chess composition where your objective is white is to play and win. This involves a lot of chess thinking ...

The queen is the most powerful piece on the chessboard. Unlike any other (including the king), it can move any number of squares vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. Now consider this queen's ...

Recently, I've been getting back into chess seriously. However, I'm having a hard time winning. I get my queen taken in favorable positions, or I miss mate-in-one moves...When I look at the board ...

Chess engines can beat grandmasters—but they can’t agree on a single infallible strategy. And, instead of ruining the game, artificial intelligence is now uncovering new ways of playing.

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 ...

Speaking this morning on "Fox & Friends Weekend," two accomplished chess players shared their enthusiasm for the game of chess — and noted the many ways that kids today can get involved in the game ...

If you have a few chess sets at home, try the following exercise: Arrange eight queens on a board so that none of them are attacking each other. If you succeed once, can you find a second arrangement?