chess
Talking About Life With the Chess Players of Union Square
VICE columnist and former competitive chess champion Giancarlo T. Roma talks to chess players in NYC's Union Square about life and the game.
Big Data's Strategy for Winning the World Chess Championship
When Viswanathan Anand goes aggro, he wins big.
I Played Chess with GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan
As a rap nerd and a chess fan, how could I not try to challenge God Zig-Zag-Zig Allah in "the game of kings." I knew it would be difficult, but everything in life is simply a series of moves. I just had to make the right ones.
3D-Printed Chess Set Puts Modern Twist On Age-Old Game
Artist Nova Jiang's "Orthogonal/Diagonal" explores various iterations of the game of chess and unites them under a common design theme.
UFOs, Corruption, and Canadians Are at the Heart of a World Chess Federation Election
The hotly contested race for President of the World Chess Federation features a small group of Canadian chess aficionados who have themselves smack-dab in a geopolitical power struggle, at odds with the West’s efforts to isolate Russia, and allied with...
Magnus Carlsen, World Chess Champion, Is Kind of a Dick
We interviewed Magnus Carlsen, the 23-year-old chess champion who has achieved rock star status in Europe. He wasn't happy to hear from us.
Why Armenia Is More Likely to Engineer Super-Children Than China
China is undertaking the largest, most sophisticated effort to identify and exploit "high IQ" genes in the world. But Armenia's going to breed a generation of super-smart kids using a 1,000 year-old game.
Ones and Zeros: Fermilab FTW, Mind Control WTF
_It's good to see that Fermilab is still getting some_ h3. ONE: FCC's report on how to improve local journalism in the age of the Webs ("FCC":http://www.fcc.gov/info-needs-communities) h3. Zero: A cheating computer ("Extreme Tech":http://www...