Sharpen your focus without feeling like homework. These nine brain games blend fun with real mental benefits—boosting memory, ...

Looking for fun activities this winter? The Library of Things (LOT) is an excellent starting point. Whether you want your children to learn new skills or are looking to boost family physical activity, ...

Online chess has in the last ten years transformed into a niche experiment into the center of the chess world. What started as a mere method of clicking pieces on a virtual board has now developed ...

On 18 November 1844, the Washington Chess Club challenged its counterparts in Baltimore to a match. Two teams were organized, and at 4 p.m. on 26 November, the first game commenced with three ...

Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a grueling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William Lowell Putnam ...

Rachel Reeves' claim to have been a British junior chess champion in her teenage years has been questioned by a former fellow board master who says she has overstated her achievement. The Chancellor, ...

Below is a five-by-five chess board with the central square poked out. Place a knight, bishop, rook or queen in the upper-left corner and find a path that ends at the bottom-right corner that visits ...

Former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik is being investigated for bullying and harassment over his comments about a rival, Daniel Naroditsky, world chess governing body FIDE has announced.

Started by CU Boulder applied mathematics Teaching Professor Silva Chang, Colorado Math Circle is celebrating 20 years of bringing middle and high school students together in a community that has fun ...

PARIS, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik has asked Swiss authorities to investigate threatening messages posted online since the sudden death of U.S. grandmaster Daniel ...

The death of US chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky is being eyed as a possible suicide or drug overdose — but is still being investigated by a homicide squad, according to a police report. Officers ...