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 ...

SINGAPORE: Before the pandemic and before Queen's Gambit, the universe of chess streaming was tucked away in one of many obscure corners of the internet. The game had a following online, this much was ...

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...

During a recent live stream, World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen took over a chess game during Asbjørn “Assios” Steinskog's live stream. The Norwegian grandmaster was visibly drunk, and took over the ...

Chess is having a moment. The centuries-old analog game has found new life online, and it hasn’t just grown in popularity — it’s exploded. As people turn toward digital entertainment amid the pandemic ...

Twitch star Felix "xQc" finally responded to a fan's message asking him to play chess instead of playing slots and gambling on stream. The unexpected request came from a Juicer who made an appearance ...

Lofi Girl studies a lot. It makes sense that she’d have a hobby that matches her studious nature: Lofi Girl, apparently, plays chess online — specifically, she plays on Chess.com. Lofi Girl launched a ...

Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky’s friends were so alarmed by his disturbing, final livestream that they desperately tried to pull the plug and get him to go to bed. Peter Giannatos and grandmaster ...