Esports is getting into the chess boom. Texas-based esports organization Envy Gaming (the owner and operator of Team Envy, the Call of Duty League’s Dallas Empire and the Overwatch League’s Dallas ...

Imagine seeing a world-famous rapper in a cafe playing chess; you'd think you were dreaming. However, this really did happen, according to a July 9 Instagram post by Madhouse Cafe in the Roxbury ...

Hunterscreator David Weil is defending the show following criticism from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and State Museum. The Memorial expressed disappointment with the Amazon Prime drama for taking ...

Daniel Naroditsky, a prominent chess creator, died at 29. His passing follows public accusations of cheating by Vladimir Kramnik, which Naroditsky refuted. Daniel Naroditsky's untimely death, which ...

Bennett Foddy, creator of such abstract pieces of interactive physical comedy like QWOP and Pole Riders - has taken to bringing his quirky, maniacal approach to chess in Bennett Foddy's Speed Chess, a ...

From a living room in the Croatian town of Krizevci, with a population of 21,000, emerges Agadmator, the world's most popular YouTube chess channel. Close to 750,000 subscribers, 15 million monthly ...

That familiar death-knell typically confined to Bobby Fischer's favorite pastime is taking a very real step outside the chessboard to corner one of its own. In a sweeping decision from the ...

Tyler, the Creator indulged in one of his side hobbies while the hip-hop innovator was in Boston for his TD Garden show this week. The rapper played chess “for over an hour” at Madhouse Café in ...

Long-time Twitch streamer Tyler Steinkamp aka Tyler "Tyler1" has once again done what appeared to be a distant dream - he has smashed past the 1,900 ELO rating on Chess.com. For those unaware, Tyler ...

From a living room in the Croatian town of Krizevci, with a population of 21,000, emerges Agadmator, the world's most popular YouTube chess channel. Close to 750,000 subscribers, 15 million monthly ...