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Leaders is a board game that asks the question: "what if chess, but with drafting?" It's not a question I've ever asked during a chess game, but publisher Studio H was itching to answer. Leaders' ...

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Picking out a new chess set is a milestone for any player who has moved beyond the casual “click-and-play” of mobile apps. It’s a tactile rite of passage. Whether you’re a club regular grinding out ...

In the realm of elite competition, a professional chess set is more than a tool; it is a precisely engineered instrument. In a game where the gap between a hard-fought win and a frustrating draw comes ...

Medieval manuscripts, paintings and chess sets reveal that the so-called "game of kings" defied social structures and racial attitudes by celebrating the intellectual prowess of winners irrespective ...

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As board games go, it's hard to get more influential than chess. It's not the oldest game out there, Go is more than a millennium older, but Chess still predates Monopoly by roughly five centuries.

In southern Russia, archaeologists have uncovered an ancient board game that may hold the key to the origins of chess. Archaeologists working in southern Russia have uncovered an ancient board game ...