Some of the students at Monfort Elementary School can barely remember a time before the giant chess and checkers set appeared on their playground. It has only been about two months since they were ...

In terms of equipment, chess and checkers are simple games — just a handful of pieces and a checkered gameboard. The simplicity belies the underlying complexity of the games, though, and goes a long ...

Think about the games of chess versus checkers. The checkers player approaches the game in a very straightforward way. All of the pieces look the same and they all have the same abilities. It is like ...

Perhaps Chinook, the checker-playing computer program, should be renamed "King Me." Canadian researchers report they have "solved" checkers, developing a program that cannot lose in a game popular ...