The COVID-19 pandemic has put a lot of people’s interests online, whether that’s playing Dungeons & Dragons over Zoom or taking virtual workout classes. But at least one of these interests, online ...

Doing things online comes with safety concerns. Chess is no different. Therefore, some common online safety advice applies to chess players of all ages: Use a fake username rather than your real name.

It’s​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ the nature of being a long-established game and having this tradition associated with it literally ...

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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Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. Chess is 500 years old. But in the past two years, it’s become a totally different game. Today, you don’t need to be a ...

The world’s top chess players are competing online with in-person tournaments shut down. Millions of amateurs are joining in, too. By David Waldstein It was 8 a.m. Tuesday in St. Louis when the ...

Quarterback Kyler Murray has on-field football work to do with the Arizona Cardinals on Wednesday. When his workday ends, he's going straight to his online chessboard. From X's and O's to rooks and ...

So when I was 8 years old, I'm pretty sure my obsessions circled around hockey and "The Muppets," but other 8-year-olds are different. Take Ashwath Kaushik. Kaushik is obsessed with chess. Not only ...

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 ...