Board games cover a lot of ground; they can be as simple as checkers, or as complex as Monopoly. They can even revolve around the collection of cards, such as in Magic the Gathering. Ironically, many ...

Thanks to the pandemic and hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit, interest in virtual chess has spiked. More Americans now play chess than tennis and golf combined, and most of that is online. In the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Online chess has exploded in popularity since the Netflix ...

Studying chess can be grueling for beginners, especially at first. Opening principles, endgames, mid-game tactics, pawn placement, and positional play are just some of the concepts that beginners need ...

Photographed against the Kansas City skyline, David Pentimone designed his own chess set based on the New York City skyline. A few years ago, he began working on a Kansas City-inspired set. From clubs ...

It’s been almost a month since 13 high school students and their coaches from Renaissance High School, a public magnet school in Detroit, Mich., piled on a bus for the nine-hour ride to Washington, ...

Since 1997, when IBM’s Deep Blue beat world champion and chess legend Garry Kasparov in a six-game match, chess players have accepted that machines are stronger at chess. We have taken some comfort ...