Square Off is moving connected board games further today with the launch of a Kickstarter campaign for its Square Off Neo chess board and the Square Off SwapBoard. The new products will offer machine ...

It’s also well-known that playing as white offers at least a slight (but sometimes decisive) advantage during any given match ...

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate is the work of Punkcake Délicieux, a three-person development team with a huge and varied ...

Computers have been beating humans at chess for decades, and they’re now so predictably good at it that chess grandmasters won’t even bother to compete against them. But in what feels like a gesture ...

Chess960 involves shuffling the pieces at the back of the board, and an analysis suggests doing so can increase the ...

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SenseRobot manufactures chess and Go robots that independently move pieces with robot arms, recognize game moves, and offer ...

Played for centuries, abstract games like chess has long been the abstract game of choice for millions of people worldwide. While none of us are going to be the next Garry Kasparov or Maurice Ashley, ...

University professor Dr. Pippin Barr has made the version of chess they play in hell, and I love it. All conventional strategy is gone and every time you think you've found an opening, something ...

Board games cover a lot of ground; they can be as simple as checkers, or as complex as Monopoly. They can even revolve around the collection of cards, such as in Magic the Gathering. Ironically, many ...

The Internet teaches us that we can accept stand-ins for the real world. We have an avatar that looks like us. We have virtual mailboxes to read messages out of make-believe envelopes. If you want to ...