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 ...

Using real data from an online chess platform, scientists studied similarities of different chess openings. Based on these similarities, they developed a new classification method which can complement ...

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Dylan Sunjic started playing chess when he was five years old at his grandparents’ house in Tampa, Florida. After learning the basic openings, Sunjic says, “I already knew that it was the kind of game ...