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 ...

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 ...

Around 30 Indian nationals working illegally as commercial truck drivers in the United States have been arrested by US Border Patrol agents as part of a federal immigration enforcement drive dubbed ...

Robert Kagan, one of the United States’ most prominent neoconservative voices and a long-time pro-Israel hawk, has warned that Washington is heading towards “total defeat” in its war on Iran - a ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Amirhossein Khorgooe / AFP / Getty; Maximillian Mann / The New York Times / Redux; Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty. It’s hard to think of a time when the United States ...

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Bestseller Mezrich (Breaking Twitter) offers a gripping investigation into a 2022 cheating scandal that stunned the competitive chess world. The book opens with the now infamous upset at America’s ...

FIRST IN PI: Checkmate Government Relations has hired Rep. Richard Hudson’s (R-N.C.) chief of staff Luke Blanchat to be the first leader of the fast-growing firm’s congressional lobbying practice. — ...

CheckMate 9LA showed a 26% overall survival benefit for metastatic NSCLC patients treated with nivolumab and ipilimumab plus chemotherapy over six years. The combination therapy was particularly ...

Online matches are gaining popularity, but chess club is all about the thrill of good old-fashioned board play. On a Wednesday night in July, chess boards and timers crowd tables at Ladybird Grove & ...

Recently, in casual conversations, I’ve been asked for my opinion about the October report that “No Rap Songs Are in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the First Time Since 1990” more so than my ...

When we first heard about chess boxing, we thought it was a joke. Chess boxing? Could it really be a thing? Turns out, it is, and it's just what it sounds like: alternate rounds of chess and boxing.