Chess can be improved by rearranging the positions of the starting pieces to produce a more difficult or fairer game, a physicist has found. A standard game of chess always starts with the pieces at ...

Yong zi is the name for the exquisite chess pieces made in Yongchang (now Baoshan) in Yunnan province. The craft has a 500-year history. According to the records of Xu Xiake, a Chinese geologist from ...