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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At its simplest, chess involves two players moving 16 game pieces each – a king and queen; two rooks, bishops and knights; and eight pawns – from opposite sides of a board composed of 64 ...

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.