Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with ...

Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with ...

Games have a long history of being used to teach military lessons, starting with ancient board games such as checkers and ...

Chess is one of the greatest board games of all time. This strategic war game is among the oldest in existence to still see ...

T HE GRANDMASTER sits at the pinnacle of chess. The title evokes excellence and experience, a garland for someone who has ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain areas involved in chess-related tasks so that ...

To the average person, the movement of a pawn on a chess board has nothing to do with a tackle on a football field. However, ...

The silver medal at the Malta Olympiad aside, Khan’s most memorable exploits on the chessboard involved defeating Belgian ...

Traditional games copy a popular game in real-life like chess or snakes and ladders ... One of the earliest computer games was called Pong. It simulated table tennis with two players trying ...

Bill Walton had a similar obsession, but instead of golf, it was chess. As peculiar as it sounds, his Boston Celtics ...

The Chinese Xiangqi Association has issued lifetime bans to top players Wang Tianyi and Wang Yuefei for match-fixing and ...