My 4-year-old daughter and I were deep in a game of checkers one day about three years ago when her eye drifted to a nearby table. There, a black-and-white board bristled with far more interesting ...

Chess has been a popular game for a long time, and there's a good reason for that. It's a game that isn't too terribly challenging to pick up, but it's exceedingly hard to master, with layers upon ...

The self-taught chess engine, known as “Giraffe,” was designed by graduate student Matthew Lai. Computers can already squash human opponents at chess by using their great computational speed to ...

It’s been almost 20 years since IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat the reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, for the first time under standard tournament rules. Since then, chess-playing ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — RVA Pieces, a Richmond-area chess club, will be offering a free chess class at the Richmond Public Library on Saturday. From 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9, this free chess ...