It may be 1,500 years old, but chess isn’t going anywhere, and part of its longevity may be the fact that it lends itself well to modern upgrades. Three years ago Infivention launched Square Off, a ...

Square Off is moving connected board games further today with the launch of a Kickstarter campaign for its Square Off Neo chess board and the Square Off SwapBoard. The new products will offer machine ...

Aatur Mehta (left) and Bhavya Gohil capitalised on the commercial potential of their smart chess board Image: Aditi Tailang The idea came from a project to build a chessboard for the visually impaired ...

Newsday receives a commission on purchases made through Newsday Shopping, which helps support the journalism we bring to readers. Chess is one of the oldest games in history, played around the world.

My chess board collects dust at home. It’s a game I have loved playing ever since my father taught it to me at a young age, but over the past few years, it has been tough finding opponents within my ...