What was expected to be a straightforward game turned into an emotional, five-hour chess battle. Both players had winning chances, both made costly mistakes, and neither was willing to give in. This ...

Below is a five-by-five chess board with the central square poked out. Place a knight, bishop, rook or queen in the upper-left corner and find a path that ends at the bottom-right corner that visits ...

Helldivers 2 is getting its next premium Warbond on December 2, bringing new weapons, armor sets, and everything else you need to stomp some bugs. The Python Commandos Warbond seems inspired by the ...

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...

One of the most basic tools in every modern kitchen has to be the humble cutting board. It has been a cooking essential for centuries, evolving from the carved stone surfaces used by the Romans and ...

The chess world is no stranger to scandals, from a 1960s fistfight between grand masters Bobby Fischer and Pal Benko to allegations of another grand master, Vladimir Kramnik, cheating in the 2006 ...

A young Saskatoon chess player is just two steps away from becoming a grandmaster. Omid Khaledi, 19, recently reached the rank of FIDE master with the International Chess Federation, or FIDE. The only ...

With his Gaelic name and love of board games, 6ft 3in, russet-bearded furniture-maker Eion Gibbs bears more than a passing resemblance to his medieval predecessors, those Norse-Gaels who whiled away ...

Chess-FIDE reinstates Russian and Belarusian teams in official contests The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has voted to allow teams from Russia and Belarus to return to official competitions ...

The room is mostly silent as two players muse intently over a chessboard, pondering their next moves. They take time to pause, think and strategize while their instructor watches. “I was always an ...

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