The game of chess conjures up images of a board of 64 squares bathed in warm lamplight: a medieval army of 32 carved pieces standing at rigid attention, and two players sitting opposite, their tense ...
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 ...