One of the most paradoxical and powerful ideas in chess is Zugzwang. This term of German origin literally means "compulsion to move", where Zug means 'move' and Zwang means 'compulsion' It describes a ...

Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa beat Alexey Sarana of Serbia to register his third straight victory and take his tally to ...

Or maybe you attempted to play chess and realized ... is to use your pieces to take your opponent's black pieces, and eventually checkmate their king. Don't let them put your king into checkmate.

Of course, it couldn’t play a full game of chess. The machine always played white with a king and rook in a fixed position. The human’s lone black king could be on one of 48 squares in the ...