A chess board consists of eight rows and eight columns, or 64 squares in total. Half the squares are white, and the rest are black. There are two armies on the board, one white and the other black.

We piece together the LEGO Traditional Chess Set, a pretty basic build, but one that's meant to be used to play chess. And from that perspective, it's almost perfect.

Chess is one of the most popular board games in the world, and with good reason. Chess isn't always about winning; it's an art, science, and a sport to continue learning from. Even after an uptick ...

Ellis Clifton draws a grid with yellow chalk, counting each row and pointing out the square on this 8-by-8 makeshift chess board where the white king — or, to her, the “King Chomper ...

Gravity is part of Barr's latest browser game, Chesses, which includes several chess variants.In Gravity, the board is arranged like a normal chess board (rotated 90-degrees), but the pieces fall ...

The first machine had a vertical board. Of course, it couldn’t play a full game of chess. The machine always played white with a king and rook in a fixed position.