Robots have been playing chess (or pretending to) since the Mechanical Turk in 1769. Today, we can easily jump online and play against an AI opponent or another human player anywhere in the world, but ...

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 ...

Playing chess on a computer or mobile device using an app doesn’t provide the same experience as playing an opponent at a table with a physical chess set. Alessandro Didonna and his team of developers ...

Square Off is moving connected board games further today with the launch of a Kickstarter campaign for its Square Off Neo chess board and the Square Off SwapBoard. The new products will offer machine ...

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.

There is nothing quite like giant chess to stoke the fires of passion in people. At least in Mill Valley, where a proposed 256-square-foot custom stone chess board at Lytton Square ignited charges of ...