Puzzles based on the chessboard have been popular since the medieval era, when chess itself first became widely popular. In recent times, a puzzle genre has emerged revolving around the rules of chess ...

The makers of a smart Rubik's Cube-like puzzle have upped the ante with their game technology with a special-edition Harry ...

Below is a five-by-five chess board with the central square poked out. Place a knight, bishop, rook or queen in the upper-left corner and find a path that ends at the bottom-right corner that visits ...

Adrian Dudek's PhD is supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award and an ANU Supplementary Scholarship. The two activities have plenty in common. In either, one’s success relies strongly on the ...

Whether you've just started playing chess or are a seasoned pro, it can be difficult finding people of your skill level to play against. GoChess allows you to do so online, via an actual physical ...

Imagine a chessboard where the pieces move on their own, gliding across the squares with mechanical precision, as if guided by an invisible hand. It might sound like a scene from a futuristic movie, ...

I have three chess puzzles for you this week, but you don’t need to know the rules of chess for two of them. These two are variants of the famous eight queens puzzle, which asks solvers to position ...

Each week the Fort Wayne Chess club will offer tips for learning or improving your chess game. The puzzles you see are to teach simple checkmating patterns or 1-3 move tactics to strengthen your ...