From Netflix shows such as “The Queen’s Gambit” to its rock and roll superstar Magnus Carlsen, the popularity of chess has never been stronger. As the game embraces the digital world, chess has only ...

Chess can be improved by rearranging the positions of the starting pieces to produce a more difficult or fairer game, a physicist has found. A standard game of chess always starts with the pieces at ...

Chess 960 Finally, there is the wildcard variant called Chess 960, or Fischer random chess. Created by former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, the game is different not just for its time ...