Commemorative 2020 election chess set lacks two important pieces
You can own a tasteful, beautiful chess set commemorating the forthcoming 2020 presidential election. On one side – red and blue, which allows either party to play as white or black — you have Trump...
View ArticleChess: take the Knight's tour online
The Knight's tour is a traditional chess problem where a lone knight is placed on a chess board and must visit each square only once. You can play this perfectly simple free implementation created by...
View ArticleSculptor creates the world's tiniest chess set, the size of a thumbtack
Turkish sculpture Necati Korkmaz makes tiny works of art, most of which can only be fully appreciated with a magnifying glass. His latest effort is a chess set smaller than a thumbtack. The board is 9...
View ArticleTrashtalking in chess
In this game of chess, black deploys the Sicilian Defence against 1: e4 to no avail, but follows adroitly with the Trash Talking Like An NPC Gambit. Will it be enough? The battle commences 40s in....
View ArticleTrash-talking chess player's ass handed to him by 16-year-old
A Joe Rogan lookalike thought he could win a chess game by intimidating his 16-year-old opponent through insults, and gaslighting, and patronizing disdain. Unfortunately for the mouthy gentleman, the...
View ArticleDoc Popular's print on demand One-Dimensional Chess.
Fresh off the heels of his awesome and high-recommended KnifeTank card game, Doc Pop is back with another fun game offering, One Dimensional Chess. 1D Chess is a fun, innovative chess variant played...
View ArticleGrandmaster plays chess against his own AI
Hikaru Nakamura decided to take on his own artificial intelligence Hikaru-bot, and he hilariously gets annoyed when it plays his own openings against him. And if that's impressive, watch him play...
View ArticleExamining the carefully selected color palette of Netflix's THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT
There are a lot of reasons why Netflix's The Queen's Gambit won* so many people over this fall. Based on a novel, the series tells the story of a young woman in the 60s and 70s who rises through the...
View ArticleCelebrate New Year's Eve with a friendly game of chess
In 1995, a group of four chess enthusiasts were devastated when their opponents took their queen in a very public New Year's Eve match at Madison Square Garden. Exactly 25 years later, they are...
View ArticleThe origins of chess
An article at History Hit asks the question, "Who invented chess?" That particular question doesn't have an answer, because chess, like many other things, wasn't invented so much as it was developed....
View Article3D printing and painting a Star Wars Dejarik Holochess set
When I was an editor at Make:, one of the most popular posts I ever wrote was about a guy who'd sculpted, molded, cast, and constructed his own Dejarik Holochess (minus the "holo). But that was before...
View ArticleShort documentary about why championship chess sets are so expensive
When the narrator says "less than 10 people are entrusted to carve the knights for world championship sets", one's mind may wander to the fact that chess authorities are among the most blatantly...
View ArticleWatch – chess rematch between champion Alexandra Botez and NYC's famous chess...
A five-time Canadian National Girls Champion, Alexandra Botez won the US Girls Nationals when she was 15. Currently, she holds the title of Woman FIDE Master with the International Chess Federation. In...
View ArticleChess tournament players burn up to 6,000 calories a day
Sitting at a table and occasionally moving chess pieces a few inches at a time turns out to be great exercise, at least if you're competing in a tournament. ESPN looked into why so many top-ranked...
View ArticleChessguessr: wordle but with chess moves
In Chessguessr you have to guess the next five moves from a selected master game, and are informed each time which moves you got right—like wordle, but with chess. As with the original word game, there...
View ArticleVideo: the moment a chess robot broke 7-year-old opponent's finger during game
During a match at the Moscow Open chess tournament, a chess-playing robot apparently grabbed and broke the finger of its 7-year-old opponent. "This is of course bad," said Sergey Lazarev, president of...
View ArticleChess cheating gadget made with a Raspberry Pi Zero
James Stanley devised a subtle way to cheat at chess (and presumably similar games) with a custom gadget concealed in his shoe. It's slow and difficult to use, but there's plenty of room for...
View ArticleAss code: chess star accused of cheating with vibrating sex toy in anus
Hans Neimann, a young player rocketing up the ratings, recently handed chess champion Magnus Carlsen a surprise defeat. Carlsen quit the tournament, posting a video of soccer manager José Mourinho...
View ArticleChess commentator fired after "chess is maybe not for women" remark
Because there isn't enough scandal in the chess world right now, grandmaster Ilya Smirin uttered sexist remarks while commentating the FIDE Womens' Grand Prix on Tuesday—among them an admission he...
View ArticleTeenage chess grandmaster cheated often, says chess.com
Hans Moke Niemann, the teenage chess grandmaster who world champion Magnus Carlsen accused of cheating at the board, admitted doing so only twice while playing online. But chess.com, a popular venue...
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