It’s also well-known that playing as white offers at least a slight (but sometimes decisive) advantage during any given match. Amid decades of discussion and chess theory into the subject, the ...

New research using chess960 shows that changing the starting layout can rebalance chess and alter how difficult early ...

Foreword -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction: first match, vantages to gain -- The imagery of chess revisited -- Composing chess -- Remembering The imagery of chess -- Origins of an ...