Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While many take full advantage of sleeping in on the weekend, mine starts by crossing state lines to clash plastic chess pieces ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...

I have a very unique story in that the leader was very obsessed with chess. And so through the experience of him realising that I had talent, he coerced and organised a cooperative abduction, taking ...

While many take full advantage of sleeping in on the weekend, mine starts by crossing state lines to clash plastic chess pieces across a green-and-buff rollup vinyl board. Every Saturday, from noon to ...