Jon Cristoff “JC” Abadesco at the Los Angeles Open chess tournament. (Jon Cristoff “JC” Abadesco) With the closure of the doors of the tournament room, the pressure mounted. It appeared that my first ...

Gukesh Dommaraju, an 18-year-old chess grandmaster, recently dethroned reigning world champion Ding Liren to claim the title of 2024 World Chess Champion. This remarkable achievement shows not only ...

Master tactics in chess are not limited to traditional gameplay, but can also be a powerful ally in competitive titles, especially in the eSports and online chess scene. Want to know more about this ...

Maurice Ashley, who became the first Black chess grandmaster in 1999, is using the game of chess to teach life lessons. Ashley fell in love with chess as a 14-year-old high school student after ...

JAKARTA—Duolingo, the world’s leading learning app, announced the launch of its Chess’s Player-vs-Player mode (PvP) on ...

CEO of Pinta, a multicultural marketing firm with clients such as Coca-Cola, Comcast, Heineken, Microsoft, NFL, T-Mobile, Western Union. In an era of video games, streaming services and social media, ...

When Chess.com launched back in 2007, its co-founders had a few starting advantages: a lifelong love of the game, two prior companies they’d exited a year before, and one very good domain name that ...