Chess was invented around 1,500 years ago in India, and the game's lasting popularity is a pretty solid testament to its success. States rise and fall, real wars come and go, and still chess endures ...

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We often use chess as a metaphor for life, business, and other competitive sports, because it's such a strategic game. Coder and chess player Gautam Narula offers us two simple rules that sum up the ...

For such a supposedly cerebral, analytical game, chess has had the darnedest time over the centuries trying to figure out one basic question: Who’s the best player in the world? Rankings are one thing ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Look at that glorious mess up there. “That’s not chess,” you say. Damn right, it’s chess on drugs. Get this game another hit of the good stuff, ...

How about easier versions of Clue and Candyland and Stratego? If they’re being honest, chess players will admit that their ...

The bad news is that there is no single solution to Rule 16. There’s not even a daily solution, the puzzle will be different each time you play the game. So you’re going to have to do one of two ...

There are robust passwords, and then there’s what you get before you’re even halfway through The Password Game. If you haven’t heard, it’s the internet sensation from coder Neal Agarwal and very ...

I write the list above in full confidence that Barack Obama, 12-dimensional chess player, has already thought through every move far more quickly and thoroughly than I have. Thus I am left with this ...

1. Each turn is referred to as a “news cycle.” 2. One side retains the pieces used in standard chess; the other side consists entirely of pawns. The player with only pawns is nevertheless loudly and ...

The chessboard before me is full, and my mind, it so happens, is suddenly a blank. "My, these are nice-looking pieces," I think to myself in a daze, scanning the dignified Nordic figures in this ...

Chess has a reputation for cold logic, but Vladimir Kramnik loves the game for its beauty. “It’s a kind of creation,” he says. His passion for the artistry of minds clashing over the board, trading ...