In the 1920s, Marcel Duchamp claimed to no longer be making art, and began to devote considerable time to chess. He’d grown up battling with his older brothers, Raymond and Jacques, and in his later ...

Chess sells. Or at least it fascinates. Its clashes—between young prodigies and seasoned grandmasters, diverging national loyalties and opposing personalities—have inspired fiction, films, a popular ...

The story at the heart of “Checkmate” is a good one, but Ben Mezrich has hustled it into print too quickly. By Dylan Loeb McClain Dylan Loeb McClain has written about chess for 30 years and was the ...