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 ...

Chess.com and Jagex have announced a limited-time crossover that brings characters from Old School RuneScape to the online chess platform. Throughout November, players can challenge five themed bots ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The chess world has entered a dark chapter after the death of 29-year-old Daniel Naroditsky.