but fell out of favor as chess gained traction in England and Nordic countries during the 11th and 12th centuries. A disk-shaped gaming board unearthed in 2018 at the site of the Scottish ...

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 ...

Of all the popular board games, chess is perhaps the oldest and certainly one of the most intriguing. Both the pieces and the moves reflect a Middle Age mindset, with a war being battled by kings ...

For every minute they spend on the board, their mother Stephanie Segal ... Wall believes it is one of the oldest chess clubs in the nation. "Chess is like a beach for anyone to go and enjoy ...

THE world’s oldest chess club is celebrating its 200th anniversary ... Viktor Korchnoi — will play 25 opponents apiece in a 200-board simul. There has never been an exhibition in which so ...

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 ...