🎲 You love badass games. So do we. Let's play together. Chess is a deceptively simple game—“easy to learn, but hard to master,” as one adage goes—where each player has 16 pieces.

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An curved arrow pointing right. There are endless possible ways to win a game of chess. But the "Fool's Mate," the fastest way to win a game of chess, is often an easy way to win against newcomers ...

Ding Liren became China’s first world chess champion in 2023 before hitting one of the most inexplicable slumps the game has ever seen. Now he’s locked in a tense battle to defend his crown.

But we're going to show you how to win a match in just two moves. Full disclosure: since chess is a two-person game, this will only work if your opponent makes two really bad moves.

Though Kasparov would go on to win the six-game match in Philadelphia four games to two, the point had been made. A computer had defeated the best chess-playing human in the world.

Ding Liren became China’s first world chess champion in 2023 before hitting one of the most inexplicable slumps the game has ever seen. Now he’s locked in a tense battle to defend his crown.