A new book by Jordan Himelfarb follows the game’s rising young players, including the reigning world champion Gukesh ...

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' ...

HANS NIEMANN CRINKLES his nose, leans forward and, without regard to polite society enjoying brunch on this spring Sunday morning in New York, launches into Joe Rogan and anal beads. "What type of..." ...

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 ...

Ludus Latrunculi board, an ancient Roman strategy game. Credit: Raimundo Pastor / CC BY-SA 4.0 Archaeologists in southern Russia have uncovered the remains of a 3,000 BC board game that may represent ...

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 ...

No matter what era we live in, Chess will most likely be a forever game that will last another couple dozen centuries by passing it down through the generations. But as new players come up and the way ...

Casual players don’t really think much about their board. If it is square and both sets of pieces are black and white, you can play. Professional players have a different strategy for their equipment.

Throughout the years, chess sets have been developed to match the evolution of the game of chess itself. In the past, sets have been a reflection of the culture and resources that were present at the ...