The game of chess itself has been played in Europe for ... The ancient Egyptian game of senet is one of the world's oldest board games — pieces of boards thought to have been used for senet ...

Bold bishops cut strategic swaths across the board. Daring knights gallop hither ... Club in San Francisco – believed to be the oldest chess club in the country – such epic battles regularly ...

It was Go, the Japanese name for what was known in ancient China as qí, believed to be the oldest continuously played board game to this day ... In fact, over his life, he amassed tens of thousands of ...