Square Off is moving connected board games further today with the launch of a Kickstarter campaign for its Square Off Neo chess board and the Square Off SwapBoard. The new products will offer machine ...

My chess board collects dust at home. It’s a game I have loved playing ever since my father taught it to me at a young age, but over the past few years, it has been tough finding opponents within my ...

Robots have been playing chess (or pretending to) since the Mechanical Turk in 1769. Today, we can easily jump online and play against an AI opponent or another human player anywhere in the world, but ...

It may be 1,500 years old, but chess isn’t going anywhere, and part of its longevity may be the fact that it lends itself well to modern upgrades. Three years ago Infivention launched Square Off, a ...

Aatur Mehta (left) and Bhavya Gohil capitalised on the commercial potential of their smart chess board Image: Aditi Tailang The idea came from a project to build a chessboard for the visually impaired ...

A giant chess set was unveiled today in central London sparking interest from would-be grand masters and tourists. The 32-piece set, featuring two-metre high ceramic pieces on a glass chess board, was ...