The lesson this week is that king-pawn endgames often devolve into a race. The fat king usually loses. Reach Eric Morrow at ...

Maybe you were one of the many people who began playing chess because you watched The Queen ... and your goal is to use your pieces to take your opponent's black pieces, and eventually checkmate ...

In Star Trek franchise, there is no dearth of interesting props and the tri-dimensional chess is one such artifact that continues to spark curiosity among the Trekkies.

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Of course, it couldn’t play a full game of chess. The machine always played white with a king and rook in a fixed position. The human’s lone black king could be on one of 48 squares in the ...

Chess is a magnificent game. The chessboard — eight squares by eight, cleanly divided between black and white — is perfectly rendered for battle. The pieces, each possessing their own powers ...