It's been over three decades since a fully performed production of Chess has been seen on a Broadway stage. While many of its songs have become beloved standards, the show's plot remains largely ...

In the Battle of Cannae (216 B.C.), the Carthaginian General Hannibal deflected the Romans toward the center and then flanked ...

Some MAGA supporters suggest that Mr. Trump is playing 3-D chess that we simply don’t understand. If he is successful, it’s more likely akin to the old saying: “Even a blind squirrel can ...

It would become a critical moment in the cold war. For years chess had been seen by both the Soviet Union and the US as a proxy for superpower military competition. Unlike US-Chinese “ping-pong ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess ... war of attrition,” grand master Jon Speelman wrote in Britain’s Guardian newspaper. Fischer again emerged victorious, 10 wins to five. He pocketed $3. ...

The televised 1972 match with Fischer, at the height of the Cold War, became an international sensation and was known as the “Match of the Century.” When Fischer won the international chess ...

He pocketed $3.35 million in prize ... During World War II, he lived for several years in an orphanage, where he learned the rules of chess before he learned to read and write.