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Nevadans love to play games — its casinos are full of them. But for family-centered board games, Nevada falls into the majority of states finding chess to be their most popular board game, based ...
To understand how Eze plays, from his meticulous pawn structure to his clever forks, we need to take a peek under the wooden board and see what we uncover. Chess may look quiet on the surface, but ...
In chess circles, that name has long carried significant weight. Gary Kasparov became a world chess champion in 1985 and memorably lost to IBM's Deep Blue more than a decade later. It was, at the time ...
Phantom chess boards have been a thing for over forty years. I’m pleasantly surprised by this implantation. It’s well though out and gives a new spin on some of the old ideas.
It’s Wizard’s Chess! We first saw Square Off at CES 2017, where we gave it our Best Cool Tech award.The chess pieces on the board can move without any help. Think Wizard’s Chess from J.K ...
Here are 20 data visualizations that offer lots of insight into the most popular games in America, including chess, Connect Four, Monopoly, Pac-Man, "Wheel of Fortune" and much more.
If you don’t complete this chess puzzle, released in the twilight of the “Heresy” episode, you can’t help the community solve the larger picture. So we’re here to help explain it and ...
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 ...
For those who don't know, in various parks in New York, people set up with chess boards and clocks, and play against people for $5/game. Sometimes it's $5 to the winner.