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 ...

“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 ...

Read an event page with confidence: identify the format, clock, rating pool, tie-breaks, and fair-play rules before round one.

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 ...