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 death of Daniel Naroditsky exposed the conflicts between the game’s traditional wing and its many online stars.

Teenage chess grandmaster Hans Niemann has "likely cheated" in more than 100 online chess games hosted by Chess.com, according to a report commissioned by the popular online chess website. On Tuesday, ...

Chess victor Magnus Carlsen, ranked the world’s best player, competes against rival Hans Niemann at the Chess.com Speed Chess Championship semi-finals in Paris that begin on Friday. It is their first ...

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 ...

Chess has recently been enjoying a spike in popularity. This is predominantly thanks to the Netflix series Queen's Gambit, as well as the rise of chess streamers and chess competitions on Twitch that ...

The pandemic has reduced most professional sports to shadows of their former selves. But it's done wonders for one game, maybe the last one you'd ever guess: chess. "A boom is taking place in 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 ...