While there are hundreds of different chess openings out there, there are some which offer much greater success to players, giving more advantageous positions and allowing for greater exchanges.

Using real data from an online chess platform, scientists of the Complexity Science Hub and the Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi (CREF) studied similarities of different chess openings. Based on these ...

“Anyone can play chess regardless of the amount of time that they have spent practicing different chess techniques and openings," he says. "So even at sort of the simplest level, even if played as a ...