Julia Gale is one of the co-founders of Beers by the Bay Chess & Social, a social club started with co-founders Mark Laturno and Aidan Ryan in 2024. It works just like the name says—they meet up each ...

On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a pawn pushed ...

PARIS, March 26 (Reuters) - The chess Candidates tournament opens on Sunday with a throwback feel — eight players, long-time controls and the game in its purest form — but also with a sense that this ...

The game started casually over drinks, with no pressure and low expectations. A few moves in, something felt off — the decisions were too precise to ignore. That’s when it became clear this wasn’t an ...

What starts as a routine chess game quickly takes an unexpected turn. Within just two minutes, one player reveals a level of precision and tactical awareness that completely changes the position on ...

Ludus Latrunculi board, an ancient Roman strategy game. Credit: Raimundo Pastor / CC BY-SA 4.0 Archaeologists in southern Russia have uncovered the remains of a 3,000 BC board game that may represent ...

It sounds like the beginning of a horror movie: Archaeologists in southern Russia have uncovered the remains of a roughly 6,000-year-old board game that researchers believe could represent a very ...

As board games go, it's hard to get more influential than chess. It's not the oldest game out there, Go is more than a millennium older, but Chess still predates Monopoly by roughly five centuries.

April 4, 2026: We looked for new Idle Potato Game codes and checked our existing codes. You can still get plenty of potatoes and other extras below! It's easy to get lost in this mesmerizing clicker ...

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AMSTERDAM, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Dutch chess grandmaster Jan Timman, known as "the best of the West" in a time when chess was dominated by players from the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 74, the ...

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