With the fast-paced advancement of technology, it is sometimes easy to forget that not everyone is as physically capable. The owners of the Lichess website, which hosts free online chess games, was ...

Theo Wait was studying at University College London in 2011 when he rediscovered chess. He had been taught the game by his grandfather, but he never really continued with it. Wait’s best friend at ...

The millennia-old pastime of chess has been enjoying an explosion of interest. Whether people are longing for any engaging hobby to keep themselves sane during the long wait, or they fell prey to a ...

Hi Folks. I will edit this to make it more substantial. We want EVERYONE who might be playing in our Annual AlphaMeridian Chess Tournament to (right now) sign up for a Lichess account and begin using ...

Yiming Zhang didn't grow up playing chess. Like many other people, the Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. student discovered the Netflix series "The Queen's Gambit" during the pandemic and began playing ...

Thanks to the pandemic and hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit, interest in virtual chess has spiked. More Americans now play chess than tennis and golf combined, and most of that is online. In the ...