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 ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS – The Saint Louis Chess Club is hosting the 2020 U.S. Chess Championships which begin Friday, October 9 and will be played virtually due to the pandemic. The Executive Director of the Saint ...

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 ...

Forget all those amusing memes of Anya Taylor-Joy’s Beth Harmon from The Queen’s Gambit facing off against Spock in Star Trek‘s infamous 3D chess. We want to see Beth take on challengers in a quantum ...

If you're looking to spice up your socially distanced New Year's Eve 2020 with a little excitement, you could do a lot worse than taking on the band Phish in a game of chess. Strange as it might sound ...

Online chess content, playing, and streaming has surged during quarantine, according to YouTube and several analytics firms. Players who spoke to Insider say the digital pastime has been a welcome ...

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 ...