"Chess," a Soviet chess instructor explains early on in The Machine, is "the only game where luck isn't a factor." This complete absence of chance, counterbalanced by the game's potential for daring ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Chess has been around for about 1,500 years, making it ...

Based on a nearly 40 year old novel from Walter Tevis, author of The Color of Money, The Hustler and the 1976 David Bowie film of the same name, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Queen’s Gambit is a TV ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a lot of people’s interests online, whether that’s playing Dungeons & Dragons over Zoom or taking virtual workout classes. But at least one of these interests, online ...

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 ...

Chess has been popular for hundreds of years, long before the first home computer arrived. And if we look back to the early days of PC gaming, there have always been chess games. In the age of the ...

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