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 death of Daniel Naroditsky exposed the conflicts between the game’s traditional wing and its many online stars.

Today's Game of the Day is classic free online Chess. Games.com's free online Chess is a rich, deep experience. You can play against the computer or against real people online. The outcome of each ...

Hikaru Nakamura plays chess like he talks — at a hundred miles an hour. The 35-year-old grandmaster has been the top ranked US player for over a decade and livestreams rapid fire games of online blitz ...

Chess is having a moment. The centuries-old analog game has found new life online, and it hasn’t just grown in popularity — it’s exploded. As people turn toward digital entertainment amid the pandemic ...

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I receive funding from the University of California Riverside. I am the principal investigator of an ongoing ethnographic study of gamers in their community on Twitch. In my work, I explore gamers as ...