All the rules of chess are discussed below: 1. The King can move one square in any direction: forward, backward, diagonal, or across. But it cannot move to a square which is under threat.

Zugzwang is particularly common in endgames due to the fewer pieces left on the board leading to fewer options. It is even common to come across positions of ‘Mutual Zugzwang’: positions where both ...

Considering its formalization in medieval Europe, chess has some unexpected quirks ... it will take the king around 24 moves to get to the same square. It’s fast, but perhaps not as fast ...

The machine could defend its king and reach checkmate, although it could take up to 63 moves, and standard chess rules would call a draw on 50 moves without a capture or pawn move. In 1920 ...

With D Gukesh’s underwhelming campaign in Weissenhaus coming to an end with back-to-back losses in the quarter-finals, the spotlight now shifts to his conquerer Fabiano Caruana and world No 1 Magnus ...

Or maybe you attempted to play chess and realized ... You are scored based on the number of moves that it took to checkmate the black king. Try to win in the lowest number of moves.