International Chess Day highlights how India’s centuries-old board game is forging a new identity in competitive gaming. Originating as Chaturanga nearly 1,500 years ago, chess has transcended its ...

The ancient game of chess is one steeped in tradition, with a history dating back centuries. It was once a game purely of endurance, a test of patience with titanic battles often taking days to find a ...

TL;DR: In a surprising experiment, Atari 2600's 1979 chess game outperformed ChatGPT despite its 1.19 MHz CPU and limited move evaluation. The AI struggled with basic chess notation and made critical ...

The world of chess has been going through somewhat of an evolution in recent years, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. The ancient game’s popularity boom has been well documented, owing in ...

CHESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent fans might concede that, as a spectacle, watching two players think for long ...

Board games might involve a race to a finish line, as in Sorry! or that ubiquitous first board game for kids, Candyland. Or they might entail a strategic battle for dominance, as in chess or checkers.

The ancient game of Chess is growing in popularity among elementary school children, especially for one 1st grader at Wiley Elementary in Raleigh. When regular classes end for the day, the school’s ...

Fareed talks to historian William Dalrymple, author of a new book about the debt the world owes to ancient India, which was ...