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

Archaeologists in Russia have uncovered the remains of a roughly 6,000-year-old board game that could represent an ancestor of chess.

Levy Rozman wrote a book that introduces infants to the chess board. But he doesn't just want parents to teach their kids the game. Here's why he thinks chess should be required in every classroom.

Chess. MMOs. As far as games go, they're nothing alike. But what if they were? That's the central thesis of One Million Chessboards, the brainchild of a single developer where you and hundreds of ...

Queen Alice is a delightfully illustrated board game that brings together chess, and a contest for the favor of the ruler of Wonderland.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Online chess has exploded in popularity since the Netflix ...

I went hands-on with the Millennium Chess Classics Exclusive (M828), and here is what you should know before buying it.

CHESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent fans might concede that, as a spectacle, watching two players think for long ...

A few months after demonstrating its dominance over the game of Go, DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI has trounced the world’s top-ranked chess engine—and it did so without any prior knowledge of the game and ...