In a museum depot in the Dutch town of Heerlen, a flattened limestone slab carved with intersecting lines has sat for decades, cataloged but not fully understood. Archaeologists agreed it looked like ...

As popular as the game of chess is, it has one massive flaw. This being that it requires two participants, which can be a ...

The game the AI reconstructed — now dubbed Ludus Coriovalli (Game of Coriovallum) — is an asymmetric battle of attrition. It ...

Chess, a game I first learned from my mother, saved my life during a season of immense transformation, calling for me to be ...