The Password Game is probably the most absurd videogame I've ever seen, and everyone should be playing the free game right now. You're given the simple task of ...

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The final game in yesterday's online Chess Olympiad was declared a draw after a widespread internet outage interrupted play. An issue at internet service provider CenturyLink has been blamed for ...

Located near a hair salon and a pediatrician’s office in a plain-vanilla retail center in Pineville, it’s an unlikely place for a nerve center of the global chess world. But the Charlotte Chess Center ...

Levy Rozman answers the internet's burning questions about the game of chess. What's the best opening? How do you become a grandmaster? Was the Queen's Gambit an accurate show? What's the worst move ...

The company hired by the World Chess Federation to organize and broadcast the ongoing chess tournament in Russia announced that other websites would not be allowed to offer live coverage, as many had ...

As many fans of the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit will attest, this is not just a story just chess, but a story about women and power, or lack thereof, in a testosterone-driven theater of combat.

There is a singular misery to trying your very best, after months of training, only to be crushed by a 6-year-old. Last December, I spent a cloudy day holed up at the Mechanics' Institute, a venerable ...

The bizarre chess cheating drama surrounding world champion Magnus Carlsen and American grandmaster Hans Niemann has officially reached the U.S. court system. Niemann, under fire since Carlsen claimed ...