Chess has enjoyed a sharp rise in popularity in the 2020s. The spike began during COVID lockdowns and increased when Chess.com created its first PogChamps tournament on Twitch in 2020, which proved ...

This analysis will focus on two prominent hypermodern openings for White: the Réti Opening (1. Nf3) and the King’s Indian Attack (KIA) as White. These openings have garnered significant attention in ...

“THIS GAME—IT’S a rabbit’s hole. After only four moves, there’s more than 300 billion options to consider.” So declares actor Peter Sarsgaard, portraying the coach of legendary chess king Bobby ...

Using real data from an online chess platform, scientists of the Complexity Science Hub and the Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi (CREF) studied similarities of different chess openings. Based on these ...