A chess board consists of eight rows and eight columns, or 64 squares in total. Half the squares are white, and the rest are black. There are two armies on the board, one white and the other black.

What is white’s best move? The lesson this week is that chess is often about finding the right angles. Reach Eric Morrow at ...

Freestyle chess is now popular because of the abundance of knowledge about the standard starting position. It randomizes the opening and side-steps memorization by shuffling the pieces on the back ...

The first machine had a vertical board. Of course, it couldn’t play a full game of chess. The machine always played white with a king and rook in a fixed position. The human’s lone black king ...

Online chess has exploded in popularity since the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, but many people prefer to play on a real board. The GoChess Mini lets you do just that, allowing you to ...