Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. On Sunday, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) crowned US ...

Two dozen programmers from around the world have signed up to compete in Germany next month in the first computer chess tournament devoted to Chess960, a game variant invented by fugitive chess genius ...

This week's Hearthstone Tavern Brawl is "A Less Friendly Game of Chess" and takes a unique approach to the classic game. We've seen chess before in Azeroth's card game, one of the bosses in One Night ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player, is bored of chess. Carlsen has spent much of the past year appearing to dismiss the game he has mastered: It was no longer exciting to play, he told a ...

Jack Pursey is an Evergreen Editor from England who began working at Game Rant as a List Writer in August 2020. Jack enjoys games from a wide range of genres but has a soft spot for puzzle and ...

“Improv Chess” is an idea for game tournaments that would encourage participants to rely on speculative thinking and what Shneiderman calls frontier thinking. Instead of relying on memorized sequences ...