It's time to throw the ancient rules of chess out the window as Black Pieces Move First comes to Xbox and Play Anywhere.

Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with ...

This smart chess ... person game with the ability to play with anyone, anywhere in the world. These kinds of boards, usually equipped with magnetized pieces that allow an internal computer to ...

Passant takes the fundamental rules of chess and turns them upside down. You still need to know the basic rules of the game, like how a bishop moves and what it takes to get a checkmate ...

We've all been there — you're being trounced in a round of Chess ... off the board. One game that may offer some of this catharsis is Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate, which is making its ...

When IBM's Big Blue super-mega-monster computer beat world chess ... But that was only chess. True, a very complicated game entailing sophisticated strategy, extreme foresight and improvisation.

In chess, you don't get to talk. It is pure strategy. You checkmate your opponent ... and improving every time you play an opponent. We become akin to a computer because there's no emotion in ...