chess
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 AI
As 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 minute
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.
Judit Polgár on chess parents, beating Kasparov and female competitors
A conversation with the best-ranked woman chess player
I see it now. The NDP would destroy everything.
Paul Wells on the latest Conservative strategizing
Scenes from Chess Day at a Brooklyn school
Since 1986, Chess-in-the-Schools has taught more than 400,000 underprivileged students how to play
This week: Newsmakers
The fatheads who resent the war on fat, plus Quebec announces a new anti-corruption unit
Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise And Fall
By Frank Brady
I’ll take “Cheap Publicity Stunts” for $1,000, Alex
IBM’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)
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.)
Even university doesn’t earn me cool points
But being older and taller should.