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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 ...

Earlier this month, a handful of the world’s greatest chess players gathered in an event space located in the lush greenery of Paris’ Bois de Vincennes. The spectacle was part of an ambitious vision ...

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Editor’s Note: Seattle resident Karen Schmidt is a longtime chess aficionado and a contributor to Northwest Chess Magazine. Here, she gives her perspective on Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit” and its ...

Good chess players are master strategists and problem solvers. Alexandra Botez has one more unlikely skill in her arsenal: insults. “My dad is a huge troll,” the chess influencer, 25, told The Post of ...

Magnus Carlsen headlines the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2025 where top Indians like D Gukesh, R Praggnanandhaa ...

After more than 40 years (on and off) of tournament chess playing, I’m used to inaccurate portrayals of the game and its devotees. So I turned on Netflix’s new original miniseries “The Queen’s Gambit” ...

The new Netflix series, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, puts a self-destructive female player at the center of a male-dominated sport. But how to glean high drama from all that staring? By Alexis Soloski ...

"Chess is the least telegenic thing ever," said The Guardian, and BBC Two’s new elimination game show "Chess Masters: The Endgame" is "so dull it's almost unwatchable". Host Sue Perkins does her best ...

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 ...