At the British Chess Championships, one game sees an age gap of 87 years amid a boom period for the game.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Online chess has exploded in popularity since the Netflix ...

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 ...

Hungry for in-person interaction, Gen Z and millennial players are joining old-fashioned chess, mahjong and backgammon groups. A meeting of the Rummikubers club in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn ...

The lockdown, combined with the runaway success of Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit, has seen a surge in the number of people playing chess online. Jemma Robinson asks what this means for traditional c ...