After receiving his degree in Journalism & Media Communications from CSU in 2019, Erik began building his career in online media, and found his dream job when he joined Game Rant as a staff writer.

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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...

1 Move Checkmate Puzzles: To win a chess game, you must checkmate your opponent's king. But only a chess champion can find the winning move in a single move. In this chess puzzle, white is to move and ...

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 ...

The chess puzzle in Blue Prince revolves around a rectangular chess board and chess pieces found around the house. Once you’ve lit all four braziers and unlocked the Precipice, you’ll find a chess ...

1 Move Checkmate Puzzles: Learn fascinating facts about Chess game such as the Queen is the most powerful piece in chess, but it was originally the weakest piece. Here is a 1-move checkmate challenge ...