What begins as a normal tournament chess game quickly turns into a sharp tactical battle. As the pieces develop, one side finds a sequence that puts enormous pressure on the opponent’s king and weak ...

To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, the electromagnet attracts the magnet inside a piece and drags it across ...

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 ...

Team members said they improve as chess players by embracing humility, dedication and the joy of the game.

There are many chess robots, most of which require the human player to move the opposing pieces themselves, or have a built-in mechanism that can slide the opposing pieces around to their new ...

The result is that it takes my opponents by complete surprise and creates total pandemonium in their minds. It freezes their ...

As the Taser Chess journey concludes, a year after it began, we watch EiH returning to Union Square. He tries to test the board on the hustlers, who want absolutely no part of it, so eventually he ...

An engineer has gone viral after creating a ruthless version of chess that literally punishes players with electric shocks ...

This is how freshman Congressman Jeff Hurd’s campaign is trying to explain away his vote to continue Obamacare subsidies for three more years: “This is a chess move … playing the long game … There ...

Magnus Carlsen has finally revealed how many moves he usually visualises ahead during chess games. Here’s what the five-time world champion thinks of how far top players can actually calculate the ...

Open Chess project delivers electric shocks for bad moves and costs $22 versus $600 commercial smart boards through open-source DIY design.

I used to consider myself a good chess player, capable of figuring things out, even thinking a few moves ahead, and having a strategy and a backup as well when I played more often with my dad, or the ...