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 ...

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 ...

No sport is perhaps driven by computer technology and the internet as much as chess. Not surprising, then, that it was one man’s experiments in a new computer programming language that led to the ...