The death of Daniel Naroditsky exposed the conflicts between the game’s traditional wing and its many online stars.

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 ...

One day in May, chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura was watching the last two moves of Felix “xQc” Lengyel’s online chess game. Ever-patient, Nakamura had been mentoring Lengyel, a top Twitch streamer ...

Online chess has in the last ten years transformed into a niche experiment into the center of the chess world. What started as a mere method of clicking pieces on a virtual board has now developed ...