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 ...

Happily, the local chess sessions for kids are free of complex subtext and Cold War metaphor. They are certainly different from matches between the game’s earliest players – an iteration called ...

Over the last few centuries, behavioral psychologists have documented all kinds of ways of modifying our actions and the ...

Imagine trying to design a key for a lock that is constantly changing its shape. That is the exact challenge we face in ...

Analysis of Tucker Carlson's interview with Mike Huckabee exposing misleading claims about Israel and Zionism.

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

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. The U.S. Chess Capital welcomes elite players for a high-stakes, double-elimination tournament competing for $400,000 ...

In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov at chess. The world panicked about machines ...

At the Hungarian national chess tournament in 1991, Judit Polgár had to choose a strategy: Play for a draw against Tibor Tolnai and thus gain enough points to make history. Or abandon caution, follow ...

This article was originally published in the February edition of Rotary magazine. It’s 9 o’clock on a Sunday morning and the temperature is soaring toward the 90s as hundreds of children make their ...

Building on more than a decade of defining excellence at the highest level of the game, the Grand Chess Tour (GCT) returns in May 2026 with a star-studded roster of elite competitors, a $2 million ...