The chess world erupted over a cheeky joke from Chess.com asking players for “new name ideas” for one of the game’s pieces.

Games are fun. You might have played a card game like Go Fish. Checkers might have been an early game you learned. Monopoly ...

In 1920, the machine got a facelift, although it used the same algorithm. Now normal chess pieces were moved by means of electromagnets. A recorded voice would say check or mate (in Spanish ...