A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and ...

Pepperidge Farm is partnering with designer Nate Berkus to transform its signature Chessmen(R) cookies into a stylish, chessboard-inspired serving piece that blends décor and function. -- The ...

Chess Mini is a self-contained chess-playing robot that pairs a physical robotic arm with camera recognition and an ...

On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a pawn pushed ...

Leaders is a board game that asks the question: "what if chess, but with drafting?" It's not a question I've ever asked during a chess game, but publisher Studio H was itching to answer. Leaders' ...

In the realm of elite competition, a professional chess set is more than a tool; it is a precisely engineered instrument. In a game where the gap between a hard-fought win and a frustrating draw comes ...

Medieval manuscripts, paintings and chess sets reveal that the so-called "game of kings" defied social structures and racial attitudes by celebrating the intellectual prowess of winners irrespective ...

Ludus Latrunculi board, an ancient Roman strategy game. Credit: Raimundo Pastor / CC BY-SA 4.0 Archaeologists in southern Russia have uncovered the remains of a 3,000 BC board game that may represent ...

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It sounds like the beginning of a horror movie: Archaeologists in southern Russia have uncovered the remains of a roughly 6,000-year-old board game that researchers believe could represent a very ...

As board games go, it's hard to get more influential than chess. It's not the oldest game out there, Go is more than a millennium older, but Chess still predates Monopoly by roughly five centuries.

In southern Russia, archaeologists have uncovered an ancient board game that may hold the key to the origins of chess. Archaeologists working in southern Russia have uncovered an ancient board game ...