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 ...

Fabiano Caruana is the top-rated American chess player and No. 2 in the world. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images) Fabiano Caruana was in a bit of a hurry. The top-rated American chess player ...

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 ...

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 ...

To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

An online chess player in Italy asked for prayers as his nation ramped up its response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that at the time of our March 22 conversation had killed almost 5,000 of ...

The e-ink display is perfect for chess, whether you're playing solo, online, or against the person next to you.

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 was a schoolgirl and found it so deadly dull and tiresome it was a ...