Chess is currently in the middle of its third boom in popularity in recent years. The ancient sport had its first popularity boom during COVID lockdowns when many people, including prominent streamers ...

LET'S CATCH UP on some world chess news, which happily involves an American grandmaster we watched grow up in N.J. and N.Y. tournaments. GM Hikaru Nakamura won the Tradewise Gibraltar Masters for the ...

For fun, sometimes, Nastassja Matus of Plymouth plays chess against a computer. “Helps me play from certain positions,” she said. Two weeks ago, Matus, 12, won the 14th annual Susan Polgar Foundation ...