Soon, people engrossed over a chess board became a common sight across the ... is fondly “known to the people in Marottichal as our king and saviour”, says John. Unlike gambling, there is ...

A chess board consists of eight rows and eight columns ... The ultimate goal of the game is to check or checkmate the other King. It happens when the King gets locked in a position to be captured ...

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. The human’s lone black king ...

For Indian chess, it was quite fitting that Aravindh’s success came on the same day that 18-year-old Pranav Venkatesh emerged ...