There are more than 135 merits badges that members of Scouts BSA can earn. And of those, the chess merit badge has quickly become one of the most, with more than 170,000 scouts earning the badge since ...

A few months after demonstrating its dominance over the game of Go, DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI has trounced the world’s top-ranked chess engine—and it did so without any prior knowledge of the game and ...

Two people hunched over a black and white checkered board, deliberating what moves they will make, how their opponent might counter and how they might counter that counter, with barely a flicker of ...

Did you sit before a wooden board thinking about the origin of such a brilliant game as chess? Before it conquered the world and turned into a worldwide game of wits, it emerged right here in ancient ...