Most games that pit two players or teams against each other require one of them to make the first play. This results in a built-in asymmetry, and the question arises: Should you go first or second?

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 ...

A few "short" years ago, during my sophomore year at The City College of New York, some fellow Caribbean classmates told me that the education department was offering a "free" course, called Thinking ...