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 ...

Though many industries suffered in 2020 as a result of lockdowns and quarantine orders nationwide, others capitalized on the shift to spending more time indoors, at home and online. Unsurprisingly, ...

STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Few chess players enjoy Magnus Carlsen's celebrity status. A grand master at 13, refusing to play an American dogged by allegations of cheating, and venturing into the world ...

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 ...

When playing chess on a screen, Lauser has to hold the device at a particular angle in order to see any information. In the year since Jessica Lauser moved to Kansas City, she's helped the 39th-seeded ...

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 ...

Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit" has been a huge hit, becoming the top-rated show on the platform practically everywhere. In the series, Anya Taylor-Joy plays Elizabeth Harmon, the charismatic orphan ...

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 ...

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 ...