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Chess players

Fingerfehler

From comments made by Russian chess officials in July, following an incident at the Moscow Open in which a chess-playing robot broke the finger of its seven-year-old competitor. Translated from…

Game of Life

by Anne Kadet,

From an interview with Marcel, a chess player in New York City’s Washington Square Park, published in April on CAFÉ ANNE, Kadet’s website. This game has cost me a couple…

Endgame

by Alexei Osin, Irina Vorobieva,

A Poisoned Russian King

by Nicholas Bethell,

The psychological state of an ex-chess champion

Chess at the summit

by Harold C. Schonberg,

New York

Drawn by Ranan R. Lurie,

Portrait of a genius as a young chess master

by Ralph Ginzburg,

The trouble–some players think too much of mere chess

Drawn by R.F. (Rudolph Frederick) Schabelitz,

Checkmated

Drawn by Ellen Emmet Rand,

Chess in America

by Henry Sedley,

A game of chess

Drawn by Charles James Theriat,

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