To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

My chess board collects dust at home. It’s a game I have loved playing ever since my father taught it to me at a young age, but over the past few years, it has been tough finding opponents within my ...

Chess is one of the most ubiquitous games in the world, and it's easy to get started. All you need is a board and some pieces. There's no need for an app or robotics, and certainly no need for ...

It may be 1,500 years old, but chess isn’t going anywhere, and part of its longevity may be the fact that it lends itself well to modern upgrades. Three years ago Infivention launched Square Off, a ...

As popular as the game of chess is, it has one massive flaw. This being that it requires two participants, which can be a ...

Robots have been playing chess (or pretending to) since the Mechanical Turk in 1769. Today, we can easily jump online and play against an AI opponent or another human player anywhere in the world, but ...

Any Harry Potter fan has surely spent at least a few moments of their life wishing that Wizard’s Chess — the enchanted version of the classic game in which pieces move without being touched — was a ...