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Let’s get to a fact straight away: There have been over one billion views related to chess globally on YouTube in 2020. Chess is one of those few sports that can be played at home on the board or ...

From a living room in the Croatian town of Krizevci, with a population of 21,000, emerges Agadmator, the world's most popular YouTube chess channel. Close to 750,000 subscribers, 15 million monthly ...

YouTube's overeager AI might have misinterpreted a conversation about chess as racist language. Last summer, a YouTuber who produces popular chess videos saw his channel blocked for including what the ...

The Botez sisters say the series surprisingly depicts much of chess tournaments and culture of the sport accurately, including the nerves, the studying, and the intense focus. Of course, there is the ...

Daniel Naroditsky, who rose to fame as a US chess grandmaster and popular YouTube chess commentator, has died aged 29, his family confirmed. Naroditsky’s family announced his "unexpected" death in a ...