Chess’ Would-Be Dana White Is Deeply Encouraged By The Success Of Boring Games
Roughly a year ago, former tech exec Andrew Paulson acquired the global licensing and marketing rights to FIDE aka the […]
Chess Commish : Doing His Best To Make Gary Bettman Look Good By Comparison
How deeply unpopular is grandmaster Gary Kasparov? Such is the animus against him in chess circles that his endorsement of […]
Icelandic Court : Go Ahead, Dig Up Bobby Fischer
Former World Chess Champion / serial anti-semite Bobby Fischer (above) provided no shortage of controversy during his time on this […]
And Checkmate: Bobby Fischer, Favorite Son of Iceland, Dead at 64
News of Fischer’s death doesn’t change the landscape of mainstream chess much, since he rarely played anymore, but the Nazi […]
Were This Story About The “Chess King” Killer, Everything Would Make Sense
The diligent editor of I’m Sorry I Had To Kill That Guy asks “is chess a sport?” Not in this […]
Shelby Lyman, Fuck Off
Perhaps the only thing standing in the way of chess becoming a cable sports fixture to rival poker or UFC […]
Checkmate, Death: Ingmar Bergman, Tom Snyder RIP
One of the few advantages — if you could call it that — of being an insomniac is the ability […]