Strategy games to sourdough, journals to code—smart isn’t a score; it’s the feedback loops you keep in your week. Some people chase IQ tests. I look at what they do when nobody’s grading them. Hobbies ...

William Guerrero started the Chicago Chess Club to make the game accessible to and build bonds in Chicago's Hispanic community.

World No. 2 Hikaru Nakamura needed to hit a minimum number of games for a shot at the world championship. He sparked a firestorm by beating up on lower-ranked players to get there.

Hey, I’m Zachary but please call me Zach! I do anything and everything that has to do with chess and make my analysis comprehensible for all levels! I love cultures and countries from all around the ...

Chess sucks. It’s a bad design, a miserable experience and not the cerebral pinnacle that its fans seem to believe. Here are our Top 6 reasons why Chess is a bad game. 1. We won the battle but lost ...

For millennia, two strategy games have stood as enduring monuments to human intellect: Chess, arising from ancient India and Persia, and Go, steeped in East Asian tradition. Both belong to the class ...

A Comparison of Strategy and Skill Both poker and chess are deep strategy games with devoted communities, decades of theory, and world-class professionals. Yet they test very different cognitive ...

Since the launch of the Crossword in 1942, The Times has captivated solvers by providing engaging word and logic games. In 2014, we introduced the Mini Crossword — followed by Spelling Bee, Letter ...