As you may have seen earlier, my colleague Joe Weisenthal found a fascinating chess puzzle posted on eminent chess expert Susan Polgar's blog. The problem was solved in a fascinating way. In the ...

Have a good mind for computational problem-solving? Fancy netting a cool $1 million for your efforts? Then the University of St. Andrews and the Clay Mathematics Institute sure have the competition ...

On a grim New York Monday in November, a small crowd clustered in a dark room with a thick pane of glass at one end. Defending world chess champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Sergey Karjakin sat on ...

If you have a few chess sets at home, try the following exercise: Arrange eight queens on a board so that none of them are attacking each other. If you succeed once, can you find a second arrangement?

Heisler’s Skinner box-esque chess set was inspired by similarly masochistic DIY projects like an electrified keyboard, and gets its voltage from a reconfigured TENS unit. Short for Transcutaneous ...

In this chess study, it is White to move and win. The win is forced – either checkmate or a White gets a large amount of material to make the position untenable for Black. Chess studies are composed ...

One of my favorite things to do for amusement is solve chess problems, wherein the player is given a scenario on the board and then asked how to go about checkmating the other side within X number of ...

University of Nottingham provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Take a set of chess pieces and throw them all away except for one knight. Place the knight on any one of the 64 ...