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.

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.

For the pieces, Rolls-Royce says its designers "studied the profile of traditional chess pieces, electing to extrude them downward into square bases," and I have to say they look very slick.

Each piece on the board projects its power in a well defined pattern — bishops along diagonals, rooks along ranks and files, knights in their famous L-shape and so on. At each point in the game, these ...

Chess also has a firm place in the language of football, but perhaps erroneously. When a match is likened to ‘a game of chess’, it’s normally a cypher for ‘this game is slow and boring’.

A new season of Masked Singer means a new slate of celebrities shrouded by elaborate masks and a Twitter feed full of guesses from viewers watching at home. And we're here to help you figure out ...

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 ...

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 ...