Duolingo launched a beta version of a new chess course on Tuesday, April 22. Here's what the new, free course will offer.

Duolingo is helping people learn chess beyond just checkmates with the launch of a new subject on its learning app. Why it matters: It's another way the Pittsburgh-based tech company is expanding ...

Duolingo also said each section represents a range on the Elo rating system, the method by which a chess player's skills are calculated. As you progress, your lessons will be tougher and more ...

Most lessons focus on solving short puzzles to sharpen your thinking, and learners can apply what they’ve learned in fast-paced “mini-matches” or full games against the in-app chess coach ...

Talk about guilt tripping. Now, he wants to teach you to play chess. Duolingo is testing out chess lessons on the app; they’re rolling out a limited beta that began Tuesday and will go wider ...

medium [player]" in an effort to make the game more accessible. The app will start by asking you how much you know about chess and then tailoring lessons based on your level — it will even teach ...

Never learned to play chess and don't know where to start? Duolingo, the gamified education app most famous for its language learning lessons, is adding chess lessons to the iPhone application ...

Of those 200 million members, 1.5 million are paying users. More than 20 million games of chess are played every day on the platform. “[Chess has] got this durability to it,” Albert Cheng ...

The language-learning app, known for its feisty owl mascot, launched an initial version of a chess course for English users with Apple devices on April 22. The course teaches users how to play ...