It’s worth knowing whether you’re just playing a game you like — or maybe also improving your brain chemistry.

Pandemic boredom and a Netflix mini-series, “The Queen’s Gambit,” added to the game’s sudden popularity. But Chess.com was also plotting its own moves. Danny Rensch, left, chief chess officer of Chess ...

The game of chess has long been central to computer science and AI-related research, most notably in IBM’s Deep Blue in the 1990s and, more recently, AlphaZero. But the game is about more than ...

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 ...

In 2005, when Erik Allebest and Jay Severson founded Chess.com, they could not have predicted the astonishing trajectory their venture would take. Fast forward to 18 years later, and Chess.com is ...