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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The American chess grandmaster at the centre of the sport's biggest scandal has been accused of cheating more than 100 times on a major online platform. Hans Niemann was accused of cheating by world ...

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 ...

These are boom times for chess. Boards are sold out. Bookstores can’t keep how-tos on the shelves. The reason: Beth Harmon, a Kentucky-orphan-turned-chess-prodigy who in the 1950s and ’60s dominated ...

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 ...