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The pandemic has reduced most professional sports to shadows of their former selves. But it's done wonders for one game, maybe the last one you'd ever guess: chess. "A boom is taking place in chess ...

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 ...

In Game 11 of the inaugural Clutch Chess Champions Showdown, with more than 10,000 people watching online, World No. 2 Fabiano Caruana scratched his three-month-long quarantine hair, palm on his ...

It’s​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ the nature of being a long-established game and having this tradition associated with it literally ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a lot of people’s interests online, whether that’s playing Dungeons & Dragons over Zoom or taking virtual workout classes. But at least one of these interests, online ...

Chess victor Magnus Carlsen, ranked the world’s best player, competes against rival Hans Niemann at the Chess.com Speed Chess Championship semi-finals in Paris that begin on Friday. It is their first ...

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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 ...