Hikaru Nakamura becomes the first player to reach a 3500 blitz rating on Chess.com, opening a 100-point gap over Magnus ...

One day in May, chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura was watching the last two moves of Felix “xQc” Lengyel’s online chess game. Ever-patient, Nakamura had been mentoring Lengyel, a top Twitch streamer ...

What the new rating will do is throw up an unified measure of strength for players across classical, rapid and blitz formats.

“I asked him to play, and he did not even inform his coach,” said Dr Madhuri Sawai, recalling how her 15-year-old son, Vandan Alankar Sawai, almost casually entered an online blitz tournament and ...

Chess is a popular part of Twitch, with an online community that discusses strategies, tournaments, and rankings. That part of the internet is currently on fire thanks to a back-and-forth between two ...

Erling Haaland and Mohamed Salah are among the Premier League stars "addicted" to chess, helping to spark a surge in the game ...