"Fortunately, sometimes I don't fit my own money into things ... or even celebrities in the chess world. RZA had grown up poor on Staten Island, but two of the things that opened his eyes ...

Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Online chess has exploded in popularity since the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, but many people prefer to play on a ...

Chess.com is also busy organizing its own money-spinning tournaments ... drew record-breaking online audiences. At the height of the chess boom fueled by the pandemic and Netflix’s “The ...

For the first three decades of my life, I'd had fleeting phases of mild interest in chess, playing the occasional game online while procrastinating or over the board with a drink. But the game's ...

With veterans like Magnus Carlsen either losing interest in classical chess or reducing their tournaments, the stage is set ...