Walter Veit: I myself have played chess in my youth.I went to tournaments, played in local leagues, and so forth. In your book, you introduce what you call "chmess" as a variation of chess, where ...

Research on Chess in Therapy. The use of chess in therapy dates back to at least 1937 when chess was used in a case study as a therapeutic tool with an adolescent who, despite receiving high marks ...

Indifference is a powerful weapon, easily injected into entire atmospheres, hearts and minds. Since the beginning of The Troyeville Bedtime Story, a never-ending Joburg tale that began with a stinking ...

Capetonian Kenny Solomon is South Africa’s first chess grandmaster-elect. Esther Lewis talks to him. . .

BootChess is now the smallest computer implementation of chess on any platform at a size of only 487 bytes. BootChess was coded by Olivier Poudade, with assistance from Peter Ferrie, and is a 512 ...

Not in traditional chess, but in "freestyle," a variant in which the opening is drawn by lot before each game. However, the aspects of the game are not the real focus of the event.

Considered the greatest chess player of his era and perhaps of any era, Magnus Carlsen has no intention of returning to the ...

Chess is one of the most popular board games in the world, and has a long history which is intertwined with computer science and the Internet. Man-machine matches continue to capture the ...

Dota Auto Chess is a great new strategy game based inside Valve's MOBA, but it comes with a steep learning curve. Here are some quick tips to help get you started.

At the Chess Olympiad in 2010, a grandmaster in the French national team was aided by his trainer who followed his charge’s games on his cellphone and communicated the engine’s move via a ...

Reykjavik - Chess legend Bobby Fischer, whose tortured genius earned him both worldwide acclaim and disdain, has died at the age of 64 at his home in Iceland. "I can confirm that he died yesterday ...

Here’s a piece of good news: another Lewis chess piece has been found. The Lewis chess pieces (92 of them) are figures in a chess set that date back to the 12th century, and this newly ...