There are a lot of puzzles in Blue Prince, some that can be solved within the same room you find them in, like the Dartboard puzzle, and some that are much, much grander in scale. The Blue Prince ...

A computer made from DNA that can solve basic chess and sudoku puzzles could one day, if scaled up, save vast amounts of energy over traditional computers when it comes to tasks like training ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...

Learn how the pin tactic works through 10 progressively harder chess puzzles, from beginner-friendly ideas to advanced ...

I have three chess puzzles for you this week, but you don’t need to know the rules of chess for two of them. These two are variants of the famous eight queens puzzle, which asks solvers to position ...

Shredder, the most successful chess program ever, is also available for the iPad. You can play against Shredder, analyze with him and solve chess puzzles. It offers the usual Shredder standard on your ...

Cognitive decline with age is natural. While many people over 50 are turning to cognitive activities like chess and sudoku, ...