With the fast-paced advancement of technology, it is sometimes easy to forget that not everyone is as physically capable. The owners of the Lichess website, which hosts free online chess games, was ...

No sport is perhaps driven by computer technology and the internet as much as chess. Not surprising, then, that it was one man’s experiments in a new computer programming language that led to the ...

Theo Wait was studying at University College London in 2011 when he rediscovered chess. He had been taught the game by his grandfather, but he never really continued with it. Wait’s best friend at ...

Getting started in competitive chess is easy. Log on to lichess.org, a popular free website, click Create a game, choose your preferred time control, and, provided you are prepared to play at speed ...

The millennia-old pastime of chess has been enjoying an explosion of interest. Whether people are longing for any engaging hobby to keep themselves sane during the long wait, or they fell prey to a ...

Gukesh Dommaraju’s crowning as the World Chess Champion has propelled the sport’s popularity to new heights in India—livestreams of matches on platforms like YouTube, ChessBase, Chess.com and ...