It was nearly a cyber check-mate for India’s chess team. In what may be a first but is at the very least “unprecedented,” the International Chess Federation has declared dual winners in the online ...

Online Chess Kingdoms is predictably unsuccessful in its attempts to enhance the timeless classic, but thankfully it does let you play classic chess online or off. The game of chess dates back to ...

The pandemic has reduced most professional sports to shadows of their former selves. But it's done wonders for one game, maybe the last one you'd ever guess: chess. "A boom is taking place in chess ...

Chess has long had tradition hanging on its shoulders, but over the past couple of years, it’s become something different altogether—a meme generator, a TikTok sensation, and even home to a legendary ...

You’re reading Back of the Envelope, an experiment that aims to bring shorter, quicker content to FiveThirtyEight. Magnus Carlsen, the Norwegian chess grandmaster and No. 1-ranked chess player in the ...

Daniel Naroditsky, a 29-year-old standard-bearer in the world of competitive speed chess that flourished in the COVID-19 pandemic, died over the weekend and leaves behind a legacy as one of the greats ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a lot of people’s interests online, whether that’s playing Dungeons & Dragons over Zoom or taking virtual workout classes. But at least one of these interests, online ...

Last November, around the time that Elon Musk took over Twitter, Mavericks point guard Luka Doncic was asked about the changes to the social media platform. The 23-year-old NBA All-Star shrugged it ...

A few weeks ago, I was out to breakfast with a bunch of my guy friends and my boyfriend, crammed into a leather booth at Orphan Andy's, a diner a couple miles from where I live. We were off school ...

PUNE, Sept. 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- “Online Chess Instruction and Play Market” with analysis of such parameters i.e. industry growth drivers, supply and demand, risks, market attractiveness, ...

As many fans of the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit will attest, this is not just a story just chess, but a story about women and power, or lack thereof, in a testosterone-driven theater of combat.