Chess isn’t fair—so rearrange the pieces

It’s also well-known that playing as white offers at least a slight (but sometimes decisive) advantage during any given match ...

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 ...
PBS

The Rules of Chess Competition

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The Atlantic

The Video Game That Rewrites the 1,500-Year-Old Rules of Chess

Chess is quite a game. The game. Chess is so old and so esteemed it’s often used as a point of legitimacy for other things. If you have a lengthy discussion about Street Fighter, critical or not, ...
New Scientist

Chess can be made fairer by rearranging the pieces

Chess960 involves shuffling the pieces at the back of the board, and an analysis suggests doing so can increase the ...
Kotaku

A Video Game Version of Chess That Changes the Rules Every Time You Play

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Look at that glorious mess up there. “That’s not chess,” you say. Damn right, it’s chess on drugs. Get this game another hit of the good stuff, ...