Playing with online chess bots is fun. To some people playing online chess may not sound ‘real’, but the truth is, it is very real and sometimes more competitive than playing chess with ‘real’ people.

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 ...

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 ...

Daniel Naroditsky, a standard-bearer in the world of competitive chess that flourished in the COVID-19 pandemic, died Monday at the age of 29, leaving behind a legacy as one of the greats of the game ...