The millennia-old pastime of chess has been enjoying an explosion of interest. Whether people are longing for any engaging hobby to keep themselves sane during the long wait, or they fell prey to a ...

Adrian Dudek's PhD is supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award and an ANU Supplementary Scholarship. The two activities have plenty in common. In either, one’s success relies strongly on the ...

Take on Evgeni Bebchuk in a recreation of a Moscow Championship game in Moscow, 1964. Solve for the best series of moves. By Daniel Naroditsky Perfect! mistakes made. Come back tomorrow for another ...

The chessboard has been the source of many ingenious puzzles that involve spatial reasoning and insight thinking. The seven ...