chess

The New Way To Play Chess Is Insane

It seems like the ideal game of chess is supposed to take hours, right? I seem to remember hearing stories of matches between grandmasters taking days. But indie game designer Bennett Foddy — best known the fun, impossible-to-play running simulator QWOP — doesn’t time for all of that.


Reach A New Level Of Geekdom With This Doctor Who Chessboard

Themed board games are nothing new, but if you’re a mad collector, it’s hard to pass up the opportunity to have tiny likenesses of Doctor Who characters duelling it out on a chessboard.


Super-Chess Wins Just For Megachessatron Alone

The rules of this super-Chess game aren’t too clear, or at least their limitations are nowhere to be seen. But it’s hilariously amazing, and I would play this BBC-invented version in a heartbeat.


What Should We Do With The $300 Chess Street Fighter Chess Set From Capcom?

The other day, an EA spokesperson invited me to go to Germany to go to some Porsche driving school in order to, in a roundabout way, play more of the next Need for Speed. (I declined.) Today, Capcom sent me a really heavy box. A $US300 chess set was in it. Yes, it’s cool. No, it wasn’t necessary.


Want To Make Chess More Fun? Add Portals

Take a chess board. Add portals. Now you have Portal Chess. The concept is fairly straightforward. Each side has their own portal, which they can move one step in any direction.


World Champion Chess Program Banned For Cheating

The engine which has emerged victorious from the past four World Computer Chess Championships, Rybka, has been banned for cheating. But, uh, how can a computer cheat unless it’s programmed to?


This Three Person Chess Looks ‘Awesome-Bad’

I can’t decide whether this attempt at creating a three person chess board is the best idea ever, or the worst idea ever. So I’m going with the concept that it’s ‘awesome-bad’.


What Is Chessboxing?

Chessboxing is an activity that combines the physical demands of boxing with the mental discipline of chess. Competitors alternate between rounds of chess and rounds of boxing, kicking things off with a four-minute round of chess and alternating with fisticuffs until 11 rounds have passed, or one competitor jams a rook in the other’s eye.


Boom, Checkmate!

Some people watch clips of shooter video games, marveling at each amazing gunshot. Some watch replays of races. Let us enjoy a more refined batch of video game victories. Checkmates. In computer chess.


Ding Dong, It’s Another BioShock 2-o-Gram

A month before its release, special deliveries from the BioShock 2 viral website are still showing up at people’s doors. This time, the packages contain a chess piece and a coded telegram from the “International Order of the Pawns.”


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