Last week we published a history of the Staunton chess ... of art and craft. The pieces are stripped of any symbolic meaning and reduced to pure form. Their designations –bishop, knight, king ...

"Hola, ajedrez" means "Hello, chess" in Spanish ... be asked to capture different pieces using a single piece, like your knight or rook, in four moves or fewer. You can access hints for each ...

Of all the popular board games, chess is perhaps ... also played a role in the art of war. Who better to replace a strong elephant in battle than a powerful bishop? In the Germanic world, läufer ...

Garry Kasparov is perhaps the greatest chess player in history ... For example, it values bishop over knight. It sees over 60 million games that statistically, you know, the bishop was dominant ...