There is a fiendishly difficult problem that’s a great way to while away a couple of hours on a chess board. Imagine that you have eight queens (and only eight queens – no other pieces), and that each can attack and take any of the others. How would you go about placing them on a […]
There are many different names for suicide chess, such as losers chess, or give-away chess. However they all boil down to the same game in the end. Unlike in ordinary chess where the objective of the game is to capture your opponent’s king, suicide chess is about losing all your pieces before your opponent does. […]
A game of chess is played by two opponents who alternately move their pieces on the chessboard. The ultimate objective is to capture the other player’s king. Once your opponent has no legal moves, you have checkmated your opponent and have won the game. If neither player has any legal moves left, then the game […]