Rex is a simple chess variant that strips the original game down to three-piece types played on a five-by-five board. Created by designer Michael Davies — whose previous work includes nuclear war ...

Board games cover a lot of ground; they can be as simple as checkers, or as complex as Monopoly. They can even revolve around the collection of cards, such as in Magic the Gathering. Ironically, many ...

Computers have been beating humans at chess for decades, and they’re now so predictably good at it that chess grandmasters won’t even bother to compete against them. But in what feels like a gesture ...