Thanks to the pandemic and hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit, interest in virtual chess has spiked. More Americans now play chess than tennis and golf combined, and most of that is online. In the ...

If you are taking your first steps in chess, you will need a book for beginners. Time-tested classics are Emanuel Lasker’s “How to play Chess” and Ilya Maizelis’s “Chess”. Lots of letters? Then start ...

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Using real data from an online chess platform, scientists of the Complexity Science Hub and the Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi (CREF) studied similarities of different chess openings. Based on these ...

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