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 ...
While the rest of the sporting world has been frozen amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a high stakes tournament pitted stars against each other in front of a live audience of 87,000 with $50,000 at stake. I ...
Popular Twitch streamer DrLupo says he’s willing to pay for the next PogChamps tournament after admitting to cheating in one of the chess series’ online competitions. In April 2025, Benjamin ‘DrLupo’ ...