Chess has featured computerized elements for decades, but contemporary tech lets you play anyone from anywhere. The thinker's game has evolved a lot over the years, morphing from traditional analog ...

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 ...

Grandmasters and other chess pros from around the world have applauded Naroditsky as an honorable ambassador of the game who ...

The 29-year-old chess grandmaster, who died this month, brought the game into a new streaming era, with sometimes toxic ...

Playing with online chess bots is fun. To some people playing online chess may not sound ‘real’, but the truth is, it is very real and sometimes more competitive than playing chess with ‘real’ people.

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 ...

Vladimir Kramnik’s GoFundMe for “Fair Play in Chess” raises over $3,000 as the former world champion denies responsibility for Daniel Naroditsky’s death amid an ongoing FIDE investigation.

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 ...

Vladimir Kramnik, who denied using bathroom breaks to look up chess moves in a 2006 title match and was cleared of wrongdoing ...