Chess is a centuries-old game that’s enjoying new popularity with young people. The renewed interest has created demand for more online content, and international chess master and commentator Levy ...

As a global pandemic continues to determine a new normal, tens of thousands of viewers have been tuning in to watch people play chess on a livestreaming website called Twitch.tv. An American chess ...

Thanks to the pandemic and hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit, interest in virtual chess has spiked. More Americans now play chess than tennis and golf combined, and most of that is online. In the ...

In this video, we explore the challenges beginners face with early queen moves in chess openings, often leading to traps like the Scholars Mate. The focus is on the Wayward Queen Attack and strategies ...

James has been gaming for as long as he can remember, from conquering the world in Civilization or blowing up worlds in Stellaris to getting sucked into yet another grind on either version of ...

Mina has been playing video games for her whole life. She hails from Virginia in the USA, and she loves cozy games, FPSs, MMOs, and puzzle games. She lives in Richmond with her husband and her kitty, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...

Elon Musk founded brain tech startup Neuralink in 2016. The first person to undergo Neuralink’s brain implant surgery, Noland Arbaugh, showed how he could control a computer with his thoughts alone.

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 ...