The Dungeons and Dragons brand is typically synonymous with adventure, exploration, and fighting evil monsters to gain experience and loot. Naturally, Dungeons and Dragons and virtual reality would ...

Chess is having a moment. The centuries-old analog game has found new life online, and it hasn’t just grown in popularity — it’s exploded. As people turn toward digital entertainment amid the pandemic ...

Esports is getting into the chess boom. Texas-based esports organization Envy Gaming (the owner and operator of Team Envy, the Call of Duty League’s Dallas Empire and the Overwatch League’s Dallas ...

It’s​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ the nature of being a long-established game and having this tradition associated with it literally hanging on its shoulders, chess, over the last couple of years, has become ...

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 ...

Chess has a reputation for cold logic, but Vladimir Kramnik loves the game for its beauty. “It’s a kind of creation,” he says. His passion for the artistry of minds clashing over the board, trading ...

Jack Pursey is an Evergreen Editor from England who began working at Game Rant as a List Writer in August 2020. Jack enjoys games from a wide range of genres but has a soft spot for puzzle and ...

The game of chess has been around for centuries, and while the rules have remained largely unchanged, the game’s appearance ...

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 ...

To Lemuel LaRouche, chess is more than a game. By getting young people from different backgrounds to engage in the game of chess, you can alter bad perceptions, stereotypes and mistrust. Special ...