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 ...

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Corrected: A previous version of this article referenced the International Chess Federation acronym as ICF. The acronym is FIDE. There are 25 million kids worldwide who play chess competitively, ...

Have you ever played chess? It is easy to learn but difficult to master. That hasn't stopped some students as young as second grade from checking out the game. "It's fun. Chess is fun. And the kids ...