“Knight to E5”. It’s a line many of us remember from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. In this scene Ron and Harry are playing Wizard’s Chess, a magical game where the pieces can move on their ...

With the integration of Orbit into chess, other board games could also potentially combine data on moves, playing patterns ...

Harry Potter comes to chess in a new way as GoChess have unveiled the Wizard Mini chess board designed to look like those seen in the films.

Computers have been beating humans at chess for decades, and they’re now so predictably good at it that chess grandmasters won’t even bother to compete against them. But in what feels like a gesture ...

Newsday receives a commission on purchases made through Newsday Shopping, which helps support the journalism we bring to readers. Chess is one of the oldest games in history, played around the world.

Although it might not be as ancient as games like Go, chess remains one of the oldest and most popular board games in the world. People have been putting different spins on the original game ever ...

The GoChess smart board has been announced on Kickstarter and it brings magic and technology to the age-old classical game. It features a fully robotic smart board with self-moving chess pieces and ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Chess has been around for more than 1,500 years and has even seen some rules and name of pieces revised, with the modern rules coming about in ...

Losing your queen hurts enough without actual voltage, but the Open Chess project takes competitive gaming to electric extremes while democratizing smart board technology. Competitive chess already ...