The world chess championship may be decided by a freeze and a fake-out. The unexpectedly compelling 14-game title match in Astana, Kazakhstan, between Russian GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and Chinese GM Ding ...

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 ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player, is bored of chess. Carlsen has spent much of the past year appearing to dismiss the game he has mastered: It was no longer exciting to play, he told a ...

Don’t look now, but the next gaming craze may have arrived. That would be auto chess, a new genre from where else, a DOTA 2 mod originally released by Drodo Studio in January 2019, and one that has ...

Auto battlers like Auto Chess aren’t very social games. When you’re not watching your units battle, you’re trying to think of your next strategy. And even when each battle starts, the game is only ...