The white-moves-first rule became standard in the late 1800s. Nupat Arjkla / EyeEm / Getty Images Daaim Shabazz, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University The recent protests over racism have ...

Google has released a new chess website that puts one fun twist on the game: it uses custom pieces that are created each time by generative AI. The game starts by letting you type in a short ...

Koneru Humpy played out a fine counterattacking game to hold International Master Yuxin Song of China and march into the ...

A beginner of chess learns the power of “white first” very quickly. They will see that an opponent will prefer the white pieces if given a choice. They feel a sense of empowerment even when ...

One chess theorist held that black is lost from the start when this move is played. As early as 1939, American master Weaver Adams claimed white is winning after the very first move, at least when ...

In the earliest versions of chess, only the pieces we know as the knight, rook, and king moved as they do now, leading to a slower overall game. Bishops couldn't move infinitely on a diagonal, and ...