Next month, the World Chess Championship will be played in New York City between the reigning champ, 25-year-old Magnus Carlsen, and 26-year-old Sergey Karjakin, who still holds the record as the ...

Thanks to the pandemic and hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit, interest in virtual chess has spiked. More Americans now play chess than tennis and golf combined, and most of that is online. In the ...

The millennia-old pastime of chess has been enjoying an explosion of interest. Whether people are longing for any engaging hobby to keep themselves sane during the long wait, or they fell prey to a ...

Finishing off our week of niche social networks comes a newish social networking offering from chess portal Chess.com. Chess.com is dedicated to becoming the premier online social networking community ...

Watch a video of the Hip-Hop Chess Federation Tournament's first annual "Chess Kings" championship. The RZA — of the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan — won the top prize, playing and besting his own ...

Chess.com recently put out a blog post about the site’s overloaded servers When Netflix released “The Queen’s Gambit,” chess.com also struggled to keep up with the uptick in traffic. This simple ...

Hans Niemann is set to compete in the U.S. Chess Championships beginning Wednesday. Chess.com released a 72-page report on the 19-year-old American grandmaster Author of the article: You can save this ...

I do watch TV -- perhaps more than I should. I've been watching "The Twilight Zone" -- the really old one -- on Netflix. I got interested because of my father, who's into sci-fi. I'm into sci-fi ...

U.S. grandmaster Hans Niemann waits his turn to move during a second-round chess game against Jeffery Xiong in St. Louis on October 6, 2022. (Photo by TIM VIZER/AFP via Getty Images) Chess.com, along ...

An American grandmaster sued Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top player, and two other parties after Carlsen accused him of cheating. A settlement has been announced. By Dylan Loeb McClain A $100 million ...

Around three o’clock in the morning on May 4, 2021, a 20-year-old computer-science student named Sounak Pal fired up his gaming rig at his parents’ place in Pune, near Mumbai in India. His desk had ...