Magnificent Octopus

Caissa, the muse of chess, was no less ruthless than the muse of poetry. Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired. The Eight , by...

I am a very recent convert to and addict of The Wire. Finishing up season 1 this weekend.

He continued to work with his Russian teacher, Andrescovich, but something had started to go wrong with the mechanism. The young Polish mast...

Chess Story (previously published as The Royal Game ), by Stefan Zweig, is a great novella, with all the elegance I'm told the game its...

As much as she'd seemed to love it, as well as she did, Helena was not interested in continuing with chess club after the Christmas brea...

Helena is frantic as we're gathering her things for school. Today's Thursday! It's chess club! She needs her folder! Where's...

Helena is in chess club . Chess is not part of her regular curriculum but is offered as part of the after-school program: The " Challen...