Some of the students at Monfort Elementary School can barely remember a time before the giant chess and checkers set appeared on their playground. It has only been about two months since they were ...

In terms of equipment, chess and checkers are simple games — just a handful of pieces and a checkered gameboard. The simplicity belies the underlying complexity of the games, though, and goes a long ...

Think about the games of chess versus checkers. The checkers player approaches the game in a very straightforward way. All of the pieces look the same and they all have the same abilities. It is like ...

Checkers is a two dimensional game where all the pieces have the same ability. Its about covering space. Chess is a complex three dimensional game where all the pieces have different capabilities and ...

The other night I went to sleep thinking about Gödel's incompleteness theorem as a kind of juvenile twaddle: a quailing in the face of the infinite more appropriate to Mahler than Bach - and ...