Now, Barthelmey has taken things one step further by publishing a new paper in the journal Physical Review E that treats chess as a complex system, producing a handy metric that can help predict the ...

Chess is war on a board - a battle of wits, strategic dance moves, and Jedi-like foresight. And as with any great performance ...

Chess grand master Magnus Carlsen is promoting a new tour that scrambles the game’s rules — and has prompted criticism from ...

At this factory in Amritsar, India, artisans carve the pieces for the official World Chess Championship sets ... Narrator: But it's just as important that all four knights in the set look totally ...

The twist: The tour randomizes the starting positions of the chess board’s most important pieces, so each game begins with the queen, rooks and knights in a jumble. Players have to adapt on the fly.