The death of Daniel Naroditsky exposed the conflicts between the game’s traditional wing and its many online stars.
As a global pandemic continues to determine a new normal, tens of thousands of viewers have been tuning in to watch people play chess on a livestreaming website called Twitch.tv. An American chess ...
The first online chess game occurred over telegraph lines in 1844 Telegraph hardware was simple yet required constant monitoring for accuracy Grandmasters later used teletype and online platforms to ...
The millennia-old pastime of chess has been enjoying an explosion of interest. Whether people are longing for any engaging hobby to keep themselves sane during the long wait, or they fell prey to a ...
The first online chess game occurred over telegraph lines in 1844 Telegraph hardware was simple yet required constant monitoring for accuracy Grandmasters later used teletype and online platforms to ...
Hikaru Nakamura plays chess like he talks — at a hundred miles an hour. The 35-year-old grandmaster has been the top ranked US player for over a decade and livestreams rapid fire games of online blitz ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has put a lot of people’s interests online, whether that’s playing Dungeons & Dragons over Zoom or taking virtual workout classes. But at least one of these interests, online ...
Playing with online chess bots is fun. To some people playing online chess may not sound ‘real’, but the truth is, it is very real and sometimes more competitive than playing chess with ‘real’ people.
I receive funding from the University of California Riverside. I am the principal investigator of an ongoing ethnographic study of gamers in their community on Twitch. In my work, I explore gamers as ...