In this video, we explore chess openings, covering a range of strategies from bad openings to the best openings. Timeline: ...

Back in the early 1900s, chess players thought they had it all figured out. The rules were simple: grab the center with your pawns first (e4, d4), then develop your pieces. Then along came rebels like ...

This unconventional path, rejected by purists and loved by eccentrics, has origins dating back to the nineteenth century but ...

Using real data from an online chess platform, scientists of the Complexity Science Hub and the Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi (CREF) studied similarities of different chess openings. Based on these ...

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