If you imagine somebody playing chess against the computer, you’ll likely be visualizing them staring at their monitor in deep thought, mouse in hand, ready to drag their digital pawn into play. That ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Like many, I have been watching the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, and it got me to ...

The developer of the popular Auto Chess mod for Dota 2, Drodo Studio, is taking its stand-alone version of the game to PC later this year. And it will be an Epic Games Store exclusive. Drodo recently ...

July 4, 2019 Auto Chess is not actually set to launch this week. Teamfight Tactics and Dota Underlords are busy staking their claim on the emerging autobattle genre, but the team behind the original ...

Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with ...

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Saitek's Mephisto Maestro Travel Chess Computer showed me that I'm really, really rusty at chess. The Maestro sells for around $100 (Cdn.) and looks a lot like a Palm computer on steroids. It's got ...

Do you remember Auto Chess? The game that launched a new sub-genre of surprisingly addictive strategy games is still going strong, though it has perhaps been outshone by newer arrivals such as ...

The Speed Chess Championship will be broadcast live later this month. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Recently, I wrote a list of ...

What is the difference between “almost” and “nearly”? What rules dictate the selection of one word in a sentence rather than the other? You’re unlikely to know. And yet if you’re a native English ...