Richard Niles started Luckenbach Chess Troupe with the vision of a regular chess club that could meet at different locations. The club maintains a group of players representing all ages and skill levels. Currently they meet at the Golden Hub on Wednesdays at 2 p.m. — Standard-Radio Post/Brent Burgess
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From kings to pawns
Diverse gathering of players shows up for weekly chess club
Chess is a game of seemingly infinite possibilities. Perhaps that’s what brings Luckenbach Chess Troupe founder Richard Niles back to the chess board repeatedly to test himself again and again.
An American mathematician named Claude Shannon attempted to calculate chess game possibilities around 1950. An early visionary for chess playing computers, he famously calculated what is called the “Shannon Number,” claiming that a chess game...
