Chess has enjoyed a sharp rise in popularity in the 2020s. The spike began during COVID lockdowns and increased when Chess.com created its first PogChamps tournament on Twitch in 2020, which proved ...

White begins the game and moves the Four Pawn two spaces ahead. To a novice player such as I once was, my next move would be to counter with my (Black) pawn to the d5 ...

Using real data from an online chess platform, scientists studied similarities of different chess openings. Based on these similarities, they developed a new classification method which can complement ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Wei Yi and Javokhir Sindarov decided to split the point after 50 moves while Norbidek Yakkuboev resigned on the 38th move ...

Chinese GM Wei Yi held GM Javokhir Sindarov to a draw in the Chess World Cup final's opening game. Meanwhile, GM Andrey Esipenko defeated GM Nodirbek Yakubboev in the third-place match. The matches ...