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 ...

Duolingo launched a beta version of a chess course on Tuesday, April 22. The new, free course teaches users how each chess piece moves through short puzzles, lead by the app's in-game chess coach ...

Chess is a centuries-old game that’s enjoying new popularity with young people. The renewed interest has created demand for more online content, and international chess master and commentator Levy ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Online chess has exploded in popularity since the Netflix ...

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 ...

The evolution of the chess queen finds a parallel in rural India, where the “Checkmate Betul” initiative, launched by ...

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 ...

For someone ranked No. 2 in the world, playing competitive games of chess sits curiously low on grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura’s list of priorities. “I look at it as something to do to get away from ...

Chess hasn’t seen popularity like this since the 1972 World Chess Championship. By Greg Keener While many Americans were confined to their homes during the pandemic, they turned to chess to occupy ...

On March 2, Levy Rozman, in a pink sweater and round glasses, was streaming his Chess.com matches to 12,000 viewers over Twitch. “All right, this looks like a cheater,” he said without pause, as he ...

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 ...