He was known for playing some of the least respected openings, including the Grob, the Creepy Crawly or the St. George Defense. But he was often successful. By Dylan Loeb McClain Michael Basman, an ...

Over a rollup chess mat on a Franklin Park picnic table, Loren Schmidt brightens while speaking about the Alekhine's Defence, one of his favorite openings. Schmidt, a Heritage University professor and ...

When Aradh Kaur's grandpa taught her and her older brother how to play chess when they were young, he thought he was just teaching his grandkids a new hobby. Kaur doesn't think her grandfather — who ...

Using real data from an online chess platform, scientists studied similarities of different chess openings. Based on these similarities, they developed a new classification method which can complement ...

Using real data from an online chess platform, scientists of the Complexity Science Hub and the Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi (CREF) studied similarities of different chess openings. Based on these ...