Chess has enjoyed a sharp rise in popularity in the 2020s. The spike began during COVID lockdowns and increased when Chess.com created its first PogChamps tournament on Twitch in 2020, which proved ...

Using real data from an online chess platform, scientists of the Complexity Science Hub and the Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi (CREF) studied similarities of different chess openings. Based on these ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Over a rollup chess mat on a Franklin Park picnic table, Loren Schmidt brightens while speaking about the Alekhine's Defence, one of his favorite openings. Schmidt, a Heritage University professor and ...

On Friday afternoon, most of Goa was blanketed by low-hanging clouds. A system has persisted on the Arabian Sea and the net ...

Chess World Cup semifinals opened with cautious play, resulting in draws for both matches. Uzbek childhood friends Sindarov ...

Canyon Crest Academy sophomore Toby Chen, 15, won the U1600 section of the San Diego Open chess competition on Oct. 26 in San Diego.