It’s also well-known that playing as white offers at least a slight (but sometimes decisive) advantage during any given match ...

Chess has enjoyed a sharp rise in popularity in the 2020s. The spike began during COVID lockdowns and increased when Chess.com created its first PogChamps tournament on Twitch in 2020, which proved ...

New research using chess960 shows that changing the starting layout can rebalance chess and alter how difficult early ...

In this video, we explore chess openings and how to study them. The content includes chess openings for beginners, such as the Sicilian, Caro Kann, Vienna, King's Gambit, and London Opening vs King's ...

Using real data from an online chess platform, scientists of the Complexity Science Hub and the Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi (CREF) studied similarities of different chess openings. Based on these ...

On a late winter afternoon, I joined Scott Russo at the Lancaster Sweet Shoppe, where he holds an open space for anyone interested in playing chess on Wednesday evenings from 4-9 p.m. I warm up with a ...