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 ...

The event will feature elite players such as Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Viswanathan Anand. Unlike traditional chess formats, the preliminary stage will follow a Double round-robin format, and ...

Indian chess prodigy D Gukesh comes into Game 2 of the World Chess Championship with a deficit after losing the opener against defending champion Ding Liren. The high-stakes match continues on Tuesday ...

Viewers are flocking to games during the pandemic, entranced by a charismatic grandmaster and his lightning-fast play. Nearly all of the chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura’s 528,000 followers on Twitch ...