Step into the world of expert craftsmanship where skilled artisans create intricate Japanese chess pieces. Watch as fine ...

Now, Barthelmey has taken things one step further by publishing a new paper in the journal Physical Review E that treats chess as a complex system, producing a handy metric that can help predict the ...

Artisans train over four to five months, learning to masterfully shape each figure ... takes an artisan to learn how to carve the other chess pieces. But unlike these other chessmen, the knight ...