It doesn't take long to get addicted to the ancient and complex game of chess. If you've got competent players to spar with, there's a lot to discover about opening gambits and ways to counter them.

It's described as a game of skill, strategy and thinking ahead while you wait for your opponent to make his move. It's said to foster skills such as reasoning, patience, not jumping to conclusions and ...

I am merely one episode into The Queen’s Gambit, which means I’m six episodes behind the rest of the world, but even one episode was enough to make a solid case that chess is cool, actually. It is a ...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (CBS4) – Kids and adults gathered Saturday to play against some of the best chess players in the world. Children as young as 10 competed with international champions who flew in from ...

NORMAL — At 5 years old, Eleanor Schenk already knows when she’s met her match. “I had three pawns and a king, so I had to call it quits,” she reported to her father, Andrew Schenk, following her ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. International Master Awonder Liang considers his next move against fellow International Master Michael Brown (not pictured), of ...

An AI strategy proven adept at board games like Chess and Go, reinforcement learning, has now been adapted for a powerful protein design program. The results show that reinforcement learning can do ...