I have three chess puzzles for you this week, but you don’t need to know the rules of chess for two of them. These two are variants of the famous eight queens puzzle, which asks solvers to position ...

Check out the chess board above—looks wrong, right? If you’ve ever played chess, you know something's amiss, here. For one thing, someone chose to exchange a pawn for another bishop instead of a queen ...

Your king is the most important piece on the board, so you need to protect it at all costs. Chess Puzzle #10: Checkmate In 1 Move, White To Play Chess is a game of strategy, so you need to be thinking ...

Below is a five-by-five chess board with the central square poked out. Place a knight, bishop, rook or queen in the upper-left corner and find a path that ends at the bottom-right corner that visits ...

When you find the winning move in a 1-move checkmate puzzle, it is a truly satisfying feeling. Chess Puzzles #5: Checkmate In 1 Move, White To Play In the above chess board, white is to make the move ...