Young chess players gathered for the Annual Dancing Knights tournament. Held at UAB's Business Engineering Complex in Birmingham, the tournament provided excellent competition for aspiring young chess ...

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 ...

In the current climate of social distancing, video conferencing has become the top source of visual communication. It's also a tool for chess tutorial sessions. The coronavirus pandemic prevents Ben ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...

Maurice Ashley, who became the first Black chess grandmaster in 1999, is using the game of chess to teach life lessons. Ashley fell in love with chess as a 14-year-old high school student after ...

Co-founder and CEO Erik Allebest shares the moves that helped the company come out on top—and where it goes from here. When Chess.com launched back in 2007, its co-founders had a few starting ...

Anyone who’s taken language lessons on the Duolingo app is certainly familiar with the Duolingo owl, Duo. If you skip out on lessons, Duo will ping you — crying! — to come back. Over the past few ...

As an international chess master and teacher, John Bartholomew of Eagan is consistently asked: "How do I go about studying chess openings?" Bartholomew found there was no efficient "go-to" resource to ...

The newest festival to hit New Orleans is dedicated to one of the oldest games: chess. Long a storied city in chess, New Orleans was home to 19th-century chess genius Paul Morphy, and today it boasts ...

When Chess.com launched back in 2007, its co-founders had a few starting advantages: a lifelong love of the game, two prior companies they’d exited a year before, and one very good domain name that ...