Elisabeth de Mariaffi: Period drama, check. Vulnerable young woman, check. Yet the absence of rape liberates this show.
As a chess legend, Garry Kasparov always looks several moves ahead—and his new book envisions what the future will hold
Have 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.
A conversation with the best-ranked woman chess player
Paul Wells on the latest Conservative strategizing
Since 1986, Chess-in-the-Schools has taught more than 400,000 underprivileged students how to play
The fatheads who resent the war on fat, plus Quebec announces a new anti-corruption unit
By Frank Brady
IBM’s assault on Jeopardy! isn’t a triumph for artificial intelligence. It’s an embarrassment.
From the print edition, this week’s column offers what may — may — be a coda to all this Rights and Democracy foofaraw (see Inkless passim, ad nauseam). Actually it probably won’t be. About two hours after I filed this column, which rather daringly assumed the fight was going out of the new board majority’s opponents, I got word that the Globe was breaking the news of the Saturday burglary at Rights and Democracy. (This morning’s Citizen contains a tribute to former R&D president Rémy Beauregard, written before the new board chairman put a gag order on his staff.)
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