Not only did Magnus Carlsen recreate the 26-piece position perfectly after looking at the board from a game that was played ...

After leaving chess pieces around the system, Bungie has introduced a new chess puzzle in Destiny 2.

If you’ve ever played chess or even checkers, you’ve probably thought about making a board that lets a computer ... After all, you know the position of the pieces at the start.

freestyle chess!” Story continues below this ad He does get the position of two pieces wrong after looking at the board for 10 seconds. “This was difficult. By far the most difficult position so far,” ...

The twist: The tour randomizes the starting positions of the chess board’s most important pieces, so each game begins with the queen, rooks and knights in a jumble. Players have to adapt on the fly.

Enter [Tamerlan Goglichidze]’s Pi Board, an automated chess ... A custom algorithm maps the 8×8 chess grid, allowing motors to track positions dynamically—no tedious resets required.