Chess

Garry Kasparov, Chess Master, Buys $3.4 Million Penthouse

The New York Observer | Chloe Malle | Posted 12.03.2009 | New York


Chess champion Garry Kasparov who has retired from chess, and taken up politics in its stead as a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin recently bought a $3...

My Metropolitan Diary

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 12.01.2009 | Comedy


Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

Dear Diary: Today I threw an empty soda bottle into a trashcan, and a rat jumped out at my face.

Kasparov, Karpov Chess Match: Rematch Taking Place In Spain

AP | DANIEL WOOLLS | Posted 11.22.2009 | World


MADRID — Chess eminences Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov are dusting off their knights and pawns for an exhibition rematch marking the 25th an...

Refugee Chess

Freddy Deknatel | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living


Freddy Deknatel

In Baghdad, their eldest daughter had two cars. Six years later, the Iraqi couple moves their mattresses out of the bedroom each night to sleep on the living room floor.

Searching for Bobby Fischer... and Bobby Neugeboren

Jay Neugeboren | Posted 02.17.2009 | Living


Jay Neugeboren

The parallels in the lives of my brother and Fischer are often as remarkable as they are sad, and I've tried here to tell part of the story: