As many of you surely know by now, the European Chess Union has established dress-code rules for chess players. (OK, some of you don’t know — you don’t follow chess and you don’t think it’s a sport.

1. Each turn is referred to as a “news cycle.” 2. One side retains the pieces used in standard chess; the other side consists entirely of pawns. The player with only pawns is nevertheless loudly and ...

We often use chess as a metaphor for life, business, and other competitive sports, because it's such a strategic game. Coder and chess player Gautam Narula offers us two simple rules that sum up the ...

As many of you surely know by now, the European Chess Union has established dress-code rules for chess players. (Okay, some of you don’t know – you don’t follow chess and you don’t think it’s a sport.

A new way of playing chess that extends the normal chess rules devised by mathematics professor Mark Bates is ' Sovereign Chess 'is. The size of the board is four times the normal size, and 10 colored ...

In a major boost to online chess, FIDE on Monday approved a new set of rules which will be applied to official online competitions. These perhaps prodded FIDE to wake up to the new reality and give ...

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I write the list above in full confidence that Barack Obama, 12-dimensional chess player, has already thought through every move far more quickly and thoroughly than I have. Thus I am left with this ...