Chess was art; art was chess. Everything was about making the right moves.” Duchamp had a tendency of turning ordinary chess games into performance pieces, as provocative as his readymade signed ...

“Chess pieces,” he once said ... “Chess is everything: art, science and sport,” Anatoly Karpov, the chess world champion from 1975 to 1985, once said. The book makes the case for ...

Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Google has released a new chess website that puts one fun twist on the game ...