Discover the new technology and design innovations in chess boards that will transform the game, #FutureOfChess ...

You can play chess against a machine on just about any computer, but that’s not nearly as fun as playing with real pieces. If you want to build a robot to play against for yourself, Maxim shows off a ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever played chess or even checkers, you’ve probably thought about making a board that lets a computer play you without having to enter your moves and look at the board on a screen. [Greg06] ...

African designer Philion has designed a chess board that’s inspired by the rules of chess and takes on the layout of the Yoruba game, Ayo. Chessboards have seen some pretty creative designs in recent ...

The world of chess is, and has always been, male-dominated. The game has never had a female open world champion, and no woman ...

Robots have been playing chess (or pretending to) since the Mechanical Turk in 1769. Today, we can easily jump online and play against an AI opponent or another human player anywhere in the world, but ...

Like a lot of great art, the sculptor Donna Dodson’s latest work was born of childhood trauma. Growing up in the Midwest, Dodson would play chess with her older brother on a beautiful, hand-carved ...