Chess.com now boasts 190 million users worldwide, up from 51 million in January 2020. The world’s biggest chess platform told NBC News that 1 in 10 Americans have an account.

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Chess Records will celebrate its 75th anniversary this fall with a series of reissues, including albums from Muddy Waters and ...

Losing a game of chess is never fun; however, setting aflame a custom wax king piece when checkmated is losing with style. Make A Move LA is a nonprofit based in Los Angeles that uses the game of ...

Some in the chess world feared the game’s growth would not continue, but so far it has. In late 2021, the NBC Sports Network devoted an hour of daily programming to the World Chess Championship.

The English seaside town of Hastings has been on the chess map since the fabled first tournament in 1895 won by a then-unknown American upstart named Harry Nelson Pillsbury. An annual Christmas ...

Tunde Onakoya, 29, of Lagos, is making moves to beat the current Guinness World Record for “longest chess marathon” at 56 hours, 9 minutes with help from a rotating cast of competitors.

Christopher Yoo—a 17-year-old chess grandmaster—was taken into custody and banned from the U.S. Chess Championship after hitting a videographer following his loss to fellow player Fabiano Caruana.

In chess, we normally start with a handshake, here you just wave,” said Igor Khmelnitsky, an international chess master.

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top-rated chess player, beat ChatGPT in an online chess match, winning in just 53 moves without ...

From chess to baseball, technology fuels 'never-ending arms race' in sports cheating As cheaters employ new forms of technology in their schemes, anti-cheating authorities use the same tools to ...