I was seven years old when I first started playing chess. My parents didn't know too much about the game because chess doesn't have a long history in China. Most people got to know more about it ...

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 ...

In a historic first, the 2020 U.S. Chess Championships will be held online this year, comprising an exciting series of five national title events, including the U.S. Championship, the U.S. Women’s ...

Analysing how Lichess grew from a small open-source project into one of the world’s biggest chess platforms with no ads, no ...

Though many industries suffered in 2020 as a result of lockdowns and quarantine orders nationwide, others capitalized on the shift to spending more time indoors, at home and online. Unsurprisingly, ...

The art of posters is one of the earliest forms of advertising. The current exhibit at the World Chess Hall of Fame, “Drawn Games,” feature posters from 27 countries around the world, all of which ...

The Queen’s Gambit is a Netflix series about a young chess prodigy, Beth Harmon. It parallels the real-life story of American prodigy Bobby Fischer, who battled the great Soviet chess machine almost ...

Ten-year-old brainiac Oliver Boydell recently called “checkmate” on one of his favorite rivals, chess prodigy Beth Harmon of “The Queen’s Gambit.” “I am technically undefeated against her,” said the ...

Dragonest will release PlayStation 4 and Switch versions of Auto Chess in 2020, the company announced. The news comes via a fan meetup event in Tokyo, during which Dragonest CEO Loring Lee discussed ...

Union Minister Jayant Chaudhary stated the government is in talks with the All India Chess Federation and FIDE to make chess ...

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 ...