My 4-year-old daughter and I were deep in a game of checkers one day about three years ago when her eye drifted to a nearby table. There, a black-and-white board bristled with far more interesting ...

I've been helping readers find the best deals for over five years. Thanks to this deal from StackSocial, you can get access to over 121 hours of online chess lessons for only $100. As the name implies ...

In this project, AlphaZero will play chess using the game records stored in ChessBase, which is a huge database of chess, the neural network chess engine of 'AlphaZero ', and various components of the ...

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

Maurice Ashley knows chess, and he enthusiastically shares that knowledge with kids who want to learn. Inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame, and the first Black person to earn the title of ...

Students in Spain have designed an innovative augmented reality system for learning to play chess. The system architecture, which combines augmented reality, computer vision and artificial ...

Meghan Walbert is Lifehacker's Managing Editor. She has a degree in journalism and has worked at Lifehacker as a writer and editor since 2018, covering parenting, foster care, online child safety, and ...

How does a woman excel in the ruthlessly competitive, male-dominated world of chess? Two outstanding players share their perspectives. This story is from Chess Grandmasters, an episode of The ...

Tianhui “Cindy” Jie, 16, is a junior at Buchholz High School, and her love for the game of chess began at the age of 6. That love has endured, brought her a multitude of awards and recognitions, and ...