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 ...

Never before has the FIDE Candidates seen such a situation: four title challengers facing each other in the final round of the three-week chess marathon. And leading them is a 17-year-old revelation: ...

The Magic City Classic chess tournament in Birmingham attracted participants from all over Alabama and Georgia. One of Alabama's up-and-coming chess talents, 8-year-old Rochelle Wu, Hoover, played in ...

So much of greatness in sports and the arts comes down to how you measure it. Was Leonardo da Vinci a “greater” artist than Ludwig van Beethoven? Is Tiger Woods a “greater” athlete than LeBron James?

Andrew Webster is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. One of the ...

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 ...