To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

As popular as the game of chess is, it has one massive flaw. This being that it requires two participants, which can be a ...

My chess board collects dust at home. It’s a game I have loved playing ever since my father taught it to me at a young age, but over the past few years, it has been tough finding opponents within my ...

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 ...

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You can play chess against a machine on just about any computer, but that’s not nearly as fun as playing with real pieces. If you want to build a robot to play against for yourself, Maxim shows off a ...

Any Harry Potter fan has surely spent at least a few moments of their life wishing that Wizard’s Chess — the enchanted version of the classic game in which pieces move without being touched — was a ...

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 ...

There were prizes, but mostly, “people want to do it for bragging rights,” she said. Mac Hills took first place in the tournament, and he is welcome to brag away until the club’s next tournament, ...