The best thing about ’The Queen’s Gambit’? There’s no sexual violence in it. Elisabeth de Mariaffi: Period drama, check. Vulnerable young woman, check. Yet the absence of rape liberates this show.
Garry Kasparov on Russia, chess, and the great gambit of AIAs a chess legend, Garry Kasparov always looks several moves ahead—and his new book envisions what the future will hold
What it feels like to lose to a chess grandmaster in under one minuteHave you ever wanted to take on a chess champion? The match might be over faster than you hoped. This is what it’s like to lose—badly—to Canadian grandmaster Eric Hansen.
Judit Polgár on chess parents, beating Kasparov and female competitorsA conversation with the best-ranked woman chess player
Scenes from Chess Day at a Brooklyn schoolSince 1986, Chess-in-the-Schools has taught more than 400,000 underprivileged students how to play
This week: NewsmakersThe fatheads who resent the war on fat, plus Quebec announces a new anti-corruption unit
I’ll take "Cheap Publicity Stunts" for $1,000, AlexIBM’s assault on Jeopardy! isn’t a triumph for artificial intelligence. It’s an embarrassment.
Hey look: Rights and Democracy and the bigger picture (featuring one of my trademark Harper-is-a-brain-in-a-jar bits)