The book, Chess Players: From Charlie Chaplin to Wu-Tang ... “Chess is everything: art, science and sport,” Anatoly Karpov, the chess world champion from 1975 to 1985, once said.

"It's now cool to play chess," says Shahade (in black). In March, she and Irina Krush (in white) vied at an art gallery benefit for the U.S. Women's Chess Olympiad Team. Mig Greengard, ChessNinja ...

Around the world, chess players are making a more social gambit by gathering in spaces not traditionally associated with the ...