The women bringing chess into the 21st Century - with 'bullet' matches and viral videos

Women content creators are helping chess shake its image as an "old man's game" and bring it into the digital age.
University of California

Chess is taking over the online video game world — and both are changing from this unlikely pairing

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 ...
Wired

The Grandmaster Who Got Twitch Hooked on Chess

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 ...
Yahoo

Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky is remembered as a leader in the game's online surge

Daniel Naroditsky, a 29-year-old standard-bearer in the world of competitive speed chess that flourished in the COVID-19 pandemic, died over the weekend and leaves behind a legacy as one of the greats ...
Salon

Chess is taking over the online video game world — and both are changing from this unlikely pairing

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 Conversation

Chess is taking over the online video game world – and both are changing from this unlikely pairing

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 ...