Computer chess engines surpassed the world’s best human players in the 1990s. They can calculate millions of moves per second, allowing them to quickly make the best decision on the board. So why ...

Last year, my son joined the middle school chess club and began using me, a total novice, as his sparring partner. In chess, a player can choose from one of 20 opening moves, including moving a knight ...

The cliché says good decisions take time. But in professional chess, the opposite pattern keeps appearing. When elite players took longer, their moves were less likely to match the best move ...

NORTH CHARLESTON — On a recent fall afternoon, a group of students at Malcolm C. Hursey Montessori Elementary leaned over a chessboard, their eyes fixed on coach Susan Key as she pointed at each piece ...