Chess.com has been around for 15 years, according to their website. But only this school year has student interest in the website taken off — similar to how Wordle became a fad for a while in the...

For some like sophomore Maximiliano Soto, it’s the allure of beating someone else out to solve a puzzle. “You get a slight ego boost, so you feel good and get that sense of accomplishment,” Soto...