Ho Math Chess at Home started in 1995 when Frank Ho, a math teacher in Canada, taught his son chess. Mr. Ho became fascinated by the relationship between math and chess and built his franchise to help ...

The FINANCIAL — At times math teachers use a legend,“mathematics in the game of chess”, as an introduction to Exponential Functions.Theoriginal mythtells of amathematician in Indiawho invented the ...

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?

Research has shown that chess players tend to have higher cognitive abilities. But does this mean that chess instruction improves cognitive abilities? Mathematical problem-solving ability in ...

Imagine someone who cheats. He might be a poker player, someone with hidden cameras to watch other people’s cards. Or maybe she’s an athlete who secretly takes performance enhancing drugs. One thing ...

I do watch TV -- perhaps more than I should. I've been watching "The Twilight Zone" -- the really old one -- on Netflix. I got interested because of my father, who's into sci-fi. I'm into sci-fi ...

A mathematician from Harvard University has (mostly) solved a 150-year-old Queen's gambit of sorts: the delightful n queens puzzle. In newly self-published research (meaning it has not yet been ...

In a typically graceful post, Roger Ebert wonders how prodigious genius, particularly in math, chess, or music, rises so early from the brain: It may be that among the countless cells in our brains a ...