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Chinese artist places regional chess variants in a 3D-printed context
Nova Jiang explores the many ways that versions of chess are loved in her home country and elsewhere.
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Behind The Road Not Taken, Spry Fox’s labyrinthine successor to Triple Town
Cheat to win.
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Behold, a levitating chessboard
It may be a bit impractical, but it’s hard to deny the coolness factor of playing chess on a board that’s levitating in midair. This is not an optical illusion, but some very impressive tech from the levitation design firm Crealev. Seriously, their motto is: We Make Things Float. They’re tight-lippe
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The secret history of the American boardgame
Or: why you hate Monopoly.
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How will chess be remembered by future civilizations?
Hopefully, with bazookas.
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RZA to defend his chess champion title, because he is the RZA
The RZA is the grandmaster of hip-hop, and we do not mean that in like a “Grandmaster Flash” context. The dude is mega-good at chess. Next week in Anaheim he will be defending his crown at the Hip Hop Chess Federation’s celebrity tournament, which is the most RZA-sounding federation ever. He’ll prob
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Good news: more original content for OUYA. Bad news: it’s chess
Can the sequel to a 2,000-year-old game resuscitate the OUYA, the hackable system the Internet willed into existence? You’d think not, but then again there’s no bigger name in games than, uh… chess? Ludeme Games is either really good at playing it straight or they’re really serious about this whole
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Esports in the Olympics? It’s going to be a lot harder than you think.
The future battles with the past–and the International Olympic Committee.