TOBY SHAPSHAK: How TikTok is making chess cool again
Thanks in part to ‘The Queen’s Gambit’, celebrities and TikTokkers are on the board
04 May 2023 - 05:00
My love of chess has been reignited since my five-year-old son started learning it at school. Though we’d fiddled with the board before, his imagination was piqued when he began playing with school friends.
He’s not the only one to have recently discovered the joys of it. Chess.com, the most popular online playing forum, has been swamped...
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