Kevin Cook will present the first program of his 2026 series of nature talks on the theme “Old-timers, Rocket Fuel, and ...

A “Gabby’s Dollhouse”-themed event where girls can drop in to do crafts and find out about being part of Girl Scouts will be ...

Chess can be improved by rearranging the positions of the starting pieces to produce a more difficult or fairer game, a physicist has found. A standard game of chess always starts with the pieces at ...

The Picochess chess program already has a long and storied history behind it—something you should be aware of if you’re looking to download and use it to play chess with on Raspberry Pi. After years ...

Chess was first invented in India around the 6th century AD. The early version of this game was called Chaturanga, a Sanskrit word that means “four divisions of the army”. These divisions stood for ...

Roller Coasters: Background and Design is just one of the courses available through StuCo, CMU's Student College initiative that allows students to turn their passions into classes they teach for ...

Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky, a child prodigy and professional player who grew up in the Bay Area, died Monday. He was 29. Naroditsky rose quickly through the ranks to the highest title in the ...

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has beaten Elon Musk's Grok in the final of a tournament to crown the best artificial intelligence (AI) chess player. Historically, tech companies have often used chess to assess ...

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When you need a couple of on-camera ambassadors for the game of chess, you won’t do better than the Botez sisters. Alexandra, 29, and Andrea, 23, have been playing since they were barely out of ...