Chess
The Two Rook Endgames Every Player Needs: Lucena and Philidor
Learn the Lucena bridge-building technique and the Philidor sixth-rank defense to win and draw the two most critical rook and pawn endgames in chess.
History
Where the games came from, with the sources named.
Checkers
Italian Dama and Turkish Dama: Two Radically Different Mediterranean Masters of the Board
Discover Italian Dama and Turkish Dama: two unique Mediterranean checkers variants featuring king immunity, strict capture hierarchies, and orthogonal flight.
Checkers
The history of checkers: how a medieval board game conquered the world and met the machine
Discover how checkers evolved from ancient alquerque into chess-board draughts, branched into global variants, and was mathematically solved in 2007.