If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. In a New York Times column, chess master Dylan Loeb ...
Unboxing an incredible collection of rare chess books covering world champions, historic tournaments, opening theory, and legendary players like Alekhine, Lasker, Capablanca, Nimzowitsch, and more. A ...
Chess is the world's most popular board game and the chances are, if you read GeekDad, you probably know how to play it. You might not know a Sicilian defence from a slice of Sicilian, but you can ...
Marcel Duchamp once likened chess players to artists. David Hockney famously echoed the French artist’s sentiment, equating drawing as running parallel to the act of playing chess, saying that “your ...
Ten-year-old brainiac Oliver Boydell recently called “checkmate” on one of his favorite rivals, chess prodigy Beth Harmon of “The Queen’s Gambit.” “I am technically undefeated against her,” said the ...
This is how the story of a great chess grandmaster usually begins,” Jordan Himelfarb writes in “Interregnum” (House of Anansi ...
Charlton Comics, Vol. 1, No. 36. Strange Suspense Stories (March 1958) (courtesy World Chess Hall of Fame) ST. LOUIS — “Chess and comics are a natural pair,” Shannon Bailey, chief curator of the World ...
The centuries-old game of chess is suddenly cool — thanks to Netflix hit “The Queen’s Gambit.” In the three weeks after “The Queen’s Gambit” premiered, unit sales of chess sets jumped 87% in the U.S.