You Can Play Chess in Hyperbolic Space Now, and It Sucks

Euclidean geometry is the kind you were taught at school, the world of sines and cosines, and the square on the hypotenuse ...
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The Chess Playing "Machine" That Beat Benjamin Franklin And Napoleon

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
Education Week

How Playing Chess Can Boost Academic Learning

Corrected: A previous version of this article referenced the International Chess Federation acronym as ICF. The acronym is FIDE. There are 25 million kids worldwide who play chess competitively, ...
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Checkmates: Chess phenoms share a college and a mastery of the ‘royal game’

In a world filled with sketchy stratagems and bad moves in every direction, the grandmasters of chess stand apart. There are fewer than 2,000 grandmasters worldwide. They play the “royal game” at the ...