Finishing off our week of niche social networks comes a newish social networking offering from chess portal Chess.com. Chess.com is dedicated to becoming the premier online social networking community ...

The halcyon days (if there ever were any) of the covid pandemic can still be felt today with the resurging popularity of online chess. However, the world’s largest chess website has become a victim of ...

Next month, the World Chess Championship will be played in New York City between the reigning champ, 25-year-old Magnus Carlsen, and 26-year-old Sergey Karjakin, who still holds the record as the ...

Chess.com recently put out a blog post about the site’s overloaded servers When Netflix released “The Queen’s Gambit,” chess.com also struggled to keep up with the uptick in traffic. This simple ...

At the United States Chess Championship, I entered a world of chess as serious business. For one thing, I was wanded by a security guard on my way up to the competition. (To prevent cheating, cell ...

Chess is booming. A heady cocktail of Queen’s Gambit mania, pandemic boredom, and Twitch streaming has given the ancient board game more visibility than it’s had in a long, long time. It’s been half a ...

On Tuesday evening, The Wall Street Journal published a high-level overview of a report produced by Chess.com, all about Hans Niemann, the player suspected of cheating at the Sinquefield Cup against ...

Hans Niemann is set to compete in the U.S. Chess Championships beginning Wednesday. Chess.com released a 72-page report on the 19-year-old American grandmaster Author of the article: You can save this ...