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?

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 ...

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A ten-year-old loses a chess game and walks away with the idea that will win him a Nobel. The lesson isn't about chess — it's ...

Puzzles based on the chessboard have been popular since the medieval era, when chess itself first became widely popular. In recent times, a puzzle genre has emerged revolving around the rules of chess ...

A chess problem that has stumped mathematicians for more than 150 years has finally been cracked. The n-queens problem began as a much simpler puzzle, and was first posed in an 1848 issue of the ...