This week, Stephen Eisenhauer starts high school. But few other ninth-graders can beat his summer vacation story: While the rest of us were grilling out for Labor Day, Eisenhauer donned a set of robes ...

Never underestimate a geek, particularly a chess geek. I once underestimated a chess geek. Matthew, 13, was my opponent at a school tournament. Both his eyes were on opposite sides of his head, so I ...

Oxymoronic as the whole notion may seem, chess hustlers are one of the pleasures of urban life. I’ve watched naive amateur players get taken for hard cash by well-masked intellectual killers in ...

Netflix’s period piece miniseries The Queen’s Gambit spans a decade in the life of fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy), a wunderkind whose natural aptitude for anticipating her ...

Netflix’s stylish drama The Queen’s Gambit might just be the surprise hit of the fall. As adapted by a 1983 Walter Tevis novel of the same name, the show’s storytelling is on point, its production ...

I'll be honest, regular 2D chess was already enough to sizzle my brain - but apparently that wasn't difficult enough, as someone has created 5D chess. Released last week by Conor Petersen and ...