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 ...

Two people hunched over a black and white checkered board, deliberating what moves they will make, how their opponent might counter and how they might counter that counter, with barely a flicker of ...

From Netflix shows such as “The Queen’s Gambit” to its rock and roll superstar Magnus Carlsen, the popularity of chess has never been stronger. As the game embraces the digital world, chess has only ...

Pandemic boredom and a Netflix mini-series, “The Queen’s Gambit,” added to the game’s sudden popularity. But Chess.com was also plotting its own moves. Danny Rensch, left, chief chess officer of Chess ...

The Netflix show about a female chess prodigy in the 1950s and ’60s is one of the best screen adaptations of the game yet. But there are a few wrong moves. By Dylan Loeb McClain This article contains ...