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 ...

As a global pandemic continues to determine a new normal, tens of thousands of viewers have been tuning in to watch people play chess on a livestreaming website called Twitch.tv. An American chess ...

Online game developer Arkadium has launched a brand new game ahead of International Chess Day, as they have created Multiplayer Chess Online. Unlike previous versions where its just a player versus ...

Meet Immortal Game, a startup that wants to turn chess into a web3 game with NFTs, play-to-earn rewards, quests, a marketplace and more. Online chess has never been so popular and Immortal Game wants ...

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 ...

Fabiano Caruana is the top-rated American chess player and No. 2 in the world. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images) Fabiano Caruana was in a bit of a hurry. The top-rated American chess player ...

The world’s top chess players are competing online with in-person tournaments shut down. Millions of amateurs are joining in, too. By David Waldstein It was 8 a.m. Tuesday in St. Louis when the ...

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I receive funding from the University of California Riverside. I am the principal investigator of an ongoing ethnographic study of gamers in their community on Twitch. In my work, I explore gamers as ...