Duolingo will soon be able to help you learn another new skill: chess. The platform’s new chess course will use short puzzles, such as moving a knight to the correct spot to practice its L ...

Duolingo launched a beta version of a chess course on Tuesday, April 22. The new, free course teaches users how each chess piece moves through short puzzles, lead by the app's in-game chess coach ...

Talk about guilt tripping. Now, he wants to teach you to play chess. Duolingo is testing out chess lessons on the app; they’re rolling out a limited beta that began Tuesday and will go wider ...

He can do that. Essentially, he plays like a big wide receiver, and you talk about the matchup problems, giving a young quarterback (Caleb Williams) another chess piece to work with.” ...

While Zuma was not put on trial, he was cited for having had a corruption relationship with Shaik. eNCA senior reporter Aviwe Mtila reflects on Zuma, the politician, ahead of the resumption of his ...

I HAVE just finished I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, which is one of the most extraordinary novels I’ve ever read. It was published in the mid-1990s, but is now being ...

Pope Francis’s funeral will be livestreamed on YouTube on the official Vatican channel, Vatican Media, which you can watch here. Additionally, every major cable news network as well as the ...

For more than 1,000 years, chess has been synonymous with war. Now, Vladimir Putin is combining the ancient game with modern skulduggery as he tries to win an all-too-real 21st century conflict. The ...

It’s really a series of chess moves, as I was reminded pregame by former Cavs head coach and broadcaster Mike Fratello. “It’s moving the pieces,” Fratello told me. “But it’s about how ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world number one, soared to a new landmark in chess history yesterday when the 34-year-old won all his nine games in the Grenke Freestyle Open at Karlsruhe, Germany.

The coverage, expected to last three hours and 59 minutes, will be led by journalist Reeta Chakrabarti. This significant event has necessitated major changes to BBC One's Saturday schedule ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. A forest may burn to the ground, but beneath the ashes, a ...