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 ...

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.

The lesson this week is that king-pawn endgames often devolve into a race. The fat king usually loses. Reach Eric Morrow at ...

Chess is played between two opposing armies, black and white. The ultimate goal of the game is to check or checkmate the other King. It happens when the King gets locked in a position to be ...

“If he continues to love chess the way he does now ... bishop diagonally and places it five squares away from the black king. It’s a check. His rival, four-year-old Anish Sarkar, sitting ...