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 ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from BOT.vinnik Chess: Opening Traps Do you think Queen's Gambit is a TV series, comrade? WRONG! It is a Chess opening! If you don't even know that, you have a ...

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 ...

He was known for playing some of the least respected openings, including the Grob, the Creepy Crawly or the St. George Defense. But he was often successful. By Dylan Loeb McClain Michael Basman, an ...