Early in “Brooklyn Castle,” a film about the championship chess team at high-poverty, racially diverse Intermediate School 318 in New York City, the principal observes that “in some schools, if you go ...

Park Slope author David Shenk is hawking a new book — a remarkable history of chess — which is great news for readers and bad news for me. See, being friends with David Shenk means signing onto ...

PAWN SACRIFICE is a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War. American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the ...

Nothing makes you feel dumber than losing at chess to a 16 year old. I have a good excuse, of course: I’m lousy at chess. And here’s an even better excuse: I was playing Akshat Chandra, the reigning ...