Queen Elizabeth II's monarchy is losing support in the 70th year of her reign as more than a quarter of Brits now want to abolish the royals. Anti-monarchy campaign group Republic warned of "a huge ...

A popular chess problem known as the Queen’s Puzzle has captivated mathematicians and computer scientists for years, yet no one has been able to write a computer program that can solve the conundrum ...

Ian Gent receives funding from EPSRC. The above picture shows a chessboard with two queens placed on it. As the queens do not share the same row, column or diagonal of the chessboard they are not ...

From visual exercises to solving the famous Eight Queens problem, explore how chess sharpens your mathematical reasoning and strategic thinking Chess is often seen as a tool to aid rational thinking ...