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.

Casual players don’t really think much about their board. If it is square and both sets of pieces are black and white, you can play. Professional players have a different strategy for their equipment.

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is set to telegraph her preferences for the Bank of Japan’s interest rate trajectory by nominating two new policy board members, in her first such appointments.

It didn’t need to get to this point and doesn’t need to stay here. Citizen furor in recent months over a proposed data center on Janesville’s former GM site, and a related grassroots revolt in the ...

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In case you've faced some hurdles solving the clue, Chess or Board Game Arena rating system, we've got the answer for you. Crossword puzzles offer a fantastic opportunity to engage your mind, enjoy ...

Could a machine outthink the best human mind in the world? Thirty years ago that was still an open question, but a historic matchup between a chess grandmaster and an IBM supercomputer answered it. On ...

Garry Kasparov, left, takes a pawn in the opening minutes of a chess game against IBM's Deep Blue computer in Philadelphia on Feb. 10, 1996. Feng-hsiung Hsu, right, the principal designer of Deep Blue ...

Tribune Talk brings in local leaders to discuss Indiana Senate Bill 248 The bill, which has been withdrawn for this year, would have replaced South Bend's elected public school board with an appointed ...