CONTESTANTS in a global chess contest felt the full impact of a bad internet connection this weekend when an outage meant it had to end in a draw. This weekend’s glitchy final of the Chess Olympiad ...

Alexandra Botez was sitting in her apartment on a recent Friday in front of three computer monitors, a webcam and a microphone — and losing at chess. "This is not looking good, but this guy is not ...

The final game in yesterday's online Chess Olympiad was declared a draw after a widespread internet outage interrupted play. An issue at internet service provider CenturyLink has been blamed for ...

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