Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For someone ranked No. 2 in the world, playing competitive games of chess sits curiously low on grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura’s list ...

Online chess has in the last ten years transformed into a niche experiment into the center of the chess world. What started as a mere method of clicking pieces on a virtual board has now developed ...

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 ...

A couple of years ago, a kind man taught me to play chess, a redo of the very early attempt by my father to teach me when I ...

More players are being drawn to the game of chess. Experts and chess champions are noticing increased interest in the hobby amid the pandemic, with some even claiming that a new Netflix series could ...

Last November, around the time that Elon Musk took over Twitter, Mavericks point guard Luka Doncic was asked about the changes to the social media platform. The 23-year-old NBA All-Star shrugged 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 ...

Playing with online chess bots is fun. To some people playing online chess may not sound ‘real’, but the truth is, it is very real and sometimes more competitive than playing chess with ‘real’ people.