The Covid-19 pandemic supercharged this digital renaissance by driving a 300% rise in new chess accounts, with online ...

Enter [Tamerlan Goglichidze]’s Pi Board, an automated chess system that blends modern tech with age-old strategy. Inspired by Harry Potter’s moving chessboard and the commercial Square Off ...

"Magnus Carlsen vs. The World" online chess game ends in a draw, with the grandmaster lauding his 143,000 opponents' "very, ...

“Her Modern Chess Set is an exploration of all of those ... and appliances assigned to women (sinks, stoves, ironing boards, buckets, wash tubs, wastebaskets) and men (armchairs, electric ...

Rachel Whiteread, Modern Chess Set, 2005 ... Featuring artistic interpretations of chess boards by women artists, the exhibit shows that the game can be both a mental and a fine art.

While following up on some of these early chess sets, I learned that there is a trove of artist-designed chess sets in the archives of the Museum of Modern Art. The largely minimalist chess ...

Chess has been around for about 1,500 years, making it the OG of board games. Naturally, in that amount of time, chess sets have evolved quite a bit in design and function. Today, there are a ...