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 ...

On May 2, 2025, in a nearly 500-word follow-up to the Chess.com PogChamps 6 cheating scandal, Twitch streamer Benjamin "DrLupo" elaborated on the incident. In an X post, Lupo revealed all, openly ...

Popular streamer DrLupo faced cheating allegations during PogChamps 6. He played against Wolfey, a higher-rated player. Suspicion arose when DrLupo made unusually precise moves after an early blunder.

The PogChamps 6 has been announced by Chess.com and the sixth installment in the rookie tournament is set to boast even more glitz and glam than last year. From famous Twitch streamers and YouTubers ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For someone ranked No. 2 in the world, playing competitive games of chess sits curiously low on grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura’s list ...

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 ...