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.

Popular streamer DrLupo was removed from a PogChamps chess tournament due to cheating accusations, and today he has confessed to the allegations. On April 30, DrLupo played his last game for the ...

Chess.com and Grip6 have recently announced the PogChamps Chess tournament edition three will be featuring popular content creators such as Imane “Pokimane” Anys and Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson. The ...

While Joedat got the better of Hutchinson in the Championship Bracket final 2-1, Charlie triumphed over Ludwig with the same scoreline in the Consolation Bracket title clash. The opening clash saw ...

Chess streamer Andrea Botez was the favorite to win Chess.com’s SuperPogChamps tournament, but she ended up making a huge mistake against comedian Samay Raina that cost her the win. While the chess ...

Indian YouTuber and comedian Samay Raina won the Super Pogchamps, an online chess tournament series, by defeating gamer Sardoche in the final round. Super PogChamps is a series of online amateur chess ...

When you need a couple of on-camera ambassadors for the game of chess, you won’t do better than the Botez sisters. Alexandra, 29, and Andrea, 23, have been playing since they were barely out of ...