Thanks to the pandemic and hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit, interest in virtual chess has spiked. More Americans now play chess than tennis and golf combined, and most of that is online. In the ...

Chess is booming. A heady cocktail of Queen’s Gambit mania, pandemic boredom, and Twitch streaming has given the ancient board game more visibility than it’s had in a long, long time. It’s been half a ...

High-speed games became wildly popular online during the pandemic ... The popular internet chess server Chess.com shut down Kramnik’s blog on the site in 2023, saying he had used it to spread baseless ...

Chess.com recently put out a blog post about the site’s overloaded servers When Netflix released “The Queen’s Gambit,” chess.com also struggled to keep up with the uptick in traffic. This simple ...