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 ...

Imagine a chessboard where the pieces move on their own, gliding across the squares with mechanical precision, as if guided by an invisible hand. It might sound like a scene from a futuristic movie, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every Friday at 4:00 PM PT, a talented crew roleplays their way through the galaxy to fulfill a mission: to boldly go where no one has gone before. Follow the adventures of the USS Sally Ride on ...

Let’s all hop in the cinematic time machine and journey back many, many years ago to the very dawn of, not civilization, but computers. So, we’re talking the early 1980’s or so in Andrew Bujalski’s ...