This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Gaurav Dutta, chess fan: For me, the greatest sacrifice(s) would be from “The Polish Immortal Game” (Glucksberg, or Glinksberg, depending on your ...

The story of chess champion Bobby Fischer was always ripe for a Hollywood adaptation, rich in Cold War paranoia, FBI surveillance, media celebrity and mad genius. It’s the sort of “Beautiful Mind” ...

Is anybody better at playing a dotty, preoccupied genius than Tobey Maguire? His brow’s worried furrows and unsettlingly inward-gazing eyes made him convincingly uncanny as the natural born writer in ...

During the summer of 1972, the war in Vietnam was raging, Richard Nixon was running for re-election against George McGovern and the Cold War was going full tilt. In July and August of that year, ...

The act of sacrifice holds an elevated and sometimes sacred place in societies across the globe. While sacrifices may be rare in a person’s daily life, they happen as a matter of course in a large ...

In the summer of 1972, one of the city’s newspapers did an informal survey to see what patrons in local bars were watching on TV. It was a time before sports bars existed, yet it seemed reasonable to ...

This past weekend was a busy one for Alabama chess as concurrent tournaments were held in Montgomery and Huntsville. Both tournaments are considered marquee events on the end-of- the year weekend ...