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 ...

Imagine a chessboard where the pieces move on their own, gliding across the squares with mechanical precision, as if guided by an invisible hand. It might sound like a scene from a futuristic movie, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “The short story is that I became so addicted to watching The Queen’s Gambit, I decided to make my own chess ...

When Kenneth Marx rekindled his passion for making chess sets out of discarded spark plugs after taking 40 years off, he was surprised to see no one else had thought of it. “They are making them out ...