Duolingo's new chess course starts at ground one, teaching users how each piece moves. Users will then learn how to spot tactical patterns and build a winning strategy, a news release states.

Duolingo's new chess course starts at ground one, teaching users how each piece moves. Users will then learn how to spot tactical patterns and build a winning strategy, a news release states.

Duolingo’s chess course will take users, who can range from complete novices to those with a solid understanding of how to play, through its gamified exercises to become better game players.

An 800-year-old chess piece was excavated at a site in Norway, covered with a unique pattern of circles. The piece depicts a horse-like figure, but in today's game it would be known as the knight.

Last fortnight, we discussed ‘Pattern Recognition in Chess’, aided by basic checkmate patterns like the Back Rank Checkmate with the rook and the Queen. Let us continue where we left off in ...

Back rank checkmate: This checkmating pattern can be deployed only by a major piece, that is, The Queen or a rook, as it involves giving a horizontal check to the opponent’s King on their first ...