Heisler’s Skinner box-esque chess set was inspired by similarly masochistic DIY projects like an electrified keyboard, and gets its voltage from a reconfigured TENS unit. Short for Transcutaneous ...

Over the last few centuries, behavioral psychologists have documented all kinds of ways of modifying our actions and the ...

To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov at chess. The world panicked about machines ...

I want to ask you a question: Do you think the choices you make today will have any impact on your future? If we stop to think about it, most of us would say, “Yes, of course.” But we don’t actually ...

Julia Gale is one of the co-founders of Beers by the Bay Chess & Social, a social club started with co-founders Mark Laturno and Aidan Ryan in 2024. It works just like the name says—they meet up each ...

The makers of a smart Rubik's Cube-like puzzle have upped the ante with their game technology with a special-edition Harry Potter-themed chess board, complete with character pieces. But can AI help ...

From the moment 4-year-old Cameron first stepped out into Glimmer in Spyro 2, he knew video games were going to play a central role in the rest of his life. Though he never planned to make it the ...

For a game whose rules can be taught to a small child, chess is bewilderingly complicated—there are more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe, and despite the ...

Apple's App Store hosts official iPad-optimized versions of classic board games that preserve traditional rules while adding modern multiplayer support. These apps are designed for the iPad's larger ...

Shotgun King is a surprisingly clever strategy game that’s also a silly twist on chess. Punkcake Délicieux In Shotgun King, you play as a mad tyrant fighting to put down a rebellion in his dominion — ...