Chess illustrations in old troubadour texts were code for intimacy -- chess pornography. “The queen sent out vibrations that sexualized the playing field,” writes Marilyn Yalom in “Birth of ...

By Nehru OdehLola Shoneyin, award-winning writer and poet, has released a children’s book about Tunde Onakoya’s tough but inspiring life and how he waded through the storms to become a chess champion.

Chess celebrities, including Howard Staunton, fifth from left, in this illustration for The Illustrated London News, 14 July 1855. Credit: in public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The Bombay ...

Not too long ago, chess-playing computers—the supervillain of many a human grandmaster—were as intimidating physically as they were virtually: bulky, sturdy, sleek, jet-black monoliths in ...