The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...

Check out the chess board above—looks wrong, right? If you’ve ever played chess, you know something's amiss, here. For one thing, someone chose to exchange a pawn for another bishop instead of a queen ...

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 ...

1 Move Checkmate Puzzles: Learn fascinating facts about Chess game such as the Queen is the most powerful piece in chess, but it was originally the weakest piece. Here is a 1-move checkmate challenge ...

1 Move Checkmate Puzzles: To win a chess game, you must checkmate your opponent's king. But only a chess champion can find the winning move in a single move. In this chess puzzle, white is to move and ...