The FINANCIAL — At times math teachers use a legend,“mathematics in the game of chess”, as an introduction to Exponential Functions.Theoriginal mythtells of amathematician in Indiawho invented the ...

Newtown police have been trying to identify the dirt bike rider, whose actions they say caused a woman to be thrown from a horse and suffer a broken neck on Platts Hill Road earlier this year. Danbury ...

Most games that pit two players or teams against each other require one of them to make the first play. This results in a built-in asymmetry, and the question arises: Should you go first or second?

Research has shown that chess players tend to have higher cognitive abilities. But does this mean that chess instruction improves cognitive abilities? Mathematical problem-solving ability in ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS >> Take the ultimate strategy game, invented in India in about 280 – 550 A.D., when one of the pieces was the elephant; add thousands of years of change and innovation; and put the ...

Research has shown that chess players tend to have higher cognitive abilities. But does this mean that chess instruction improves cognitive abilities? Mathematical problem-solving ability in ...

I do watch TV -- perhaps more than I should. I've been watching "The Twilight Zone" -- the really old one -- on Netflix. I got interested because of my father, who's into sci-fi. I'm into sci-fi ...