In any entrepreneur’s journey, there are bound to be naysayers and doors slammed in their face. The same goes for two of Chess.com’s founders, Danny Rensch and Erik Allebest, when they were shopping ...

Chess pieces are assembled on a board at the Albany Chess Center on Sept. 19 in Colonie. Founder John Oyeyemi Fawole and his team operate the center seven days a week and run programming not just at ...

The most popular platform for chess players, Chess.com, has informed thousands of users that their personal details were exposed after hackers breached the company’s data storage vendor. Chess.com ...

Magnus Carlsen is vastly successful against just one opponent. And even when he came up against many more, the Norwegian showed he can hold his own. The five-time world chess champion was competing in ...

For years, chess has been growing online in popularity, much to the bemusement of many. This centuries-old board game boasts a relatively large following in its own right, but since 2020, it has been ...

Hey, I’m Zachary but please call me Zach! I do anything and everything that has to do with chess and make my analysis comprehensible for all levels! I love cultures and countries from all around the ...

Chess.com reaches a new membership milestone as it nears its 20th birthday. Chess.com, the online chess platform that was founded in 2005 and launched in 2007, has surpassed 200 million members. Of ...

For someone ranked No. 2 in the world, playing competitive games of chess sits curiously low on grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura’s list of priorities. “I look at it as something to do to get away from ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

Did you know that the game of chess has been around for over 1,500 years? As one of the oldest and most widespread games, chess has been the foundation of countless theories, combinations of play, and ...