LEGO patented its signature "binding brick" in 1958. But it wasn't until nearly 50 years later, in 2005, that LEGO released its first official chess build. I learned this fact while researching this ...

Chess players searching for a compact portable chess set may be interested in the new Kickstarter campaign for the Crownes Chess set. Offering three different versions, the nesting chess set is ...

Google Labs, the experimental arm of the tech giant, has introduced a new online project that offers an entertaining variation of the game of chess. The web experiment is named GenChess, which, as the ...

Taras Yoom has unveiled an all-new collectible chess set, titled “Another Kingdom: Light Stage.” The design, which is crafted in an abundance of light pastel tones, lives in the artist’s Yoomoota art ...

GenChess lets you design the pieces with AI then play the board It uses the Imagen 3 image-generation engine from Google Gemini GenChess is free to play and you can redesign the pieces as many times ...

When Tiffany & Co. set out to make a chess set, it did so via an unlikely muse—cardboard. “We were playing around with [it], the way it’s corrugated,” says chief artistic officer Reed Krakoff. Toying ...

Before I begin gushing about this charming chess set, I have a confession: I don’t know how to play the game. It’s not that I’ve never been interested in learning, I was just never the type of kid ...

If you’ve spent any time on Netflix lately, then you’ve probably happened across The Queen’s Gambit. The miniseries tells the story of Elizabeth Harmon, an orphan chess prodigy who rises through the ...

If you are feeling the urge to play chess with all the buzz about the 2024 FIDE World Championships underway or looking to upgrade your current chef sent to something a little different. You might be ...

Lauren Ro is interested in baby gear (she’s a new mom) and the ins-and-outs of decorating a home. Prior to the Strategist, she was a writer at Curbed, and before that was Wes Anderson’s assistant.