Sometimes it’s the small sprinkles of strangeness that stand out the most. If you had told me several years ago that 2020 would bring daily disasters of incomprehensible consequence, I probably would have believed you, because we’ve been trending in that direction for a while now. The idea of an…
Chess is a game of seemingly endless complexity, each new match expanding into an intricate weave of strategies, gambits, and countermoves. It only gets stranger if you decide to throw out the rulebook.
With the World Chess Championships being decided today, it’s a good opportunity to go back and look at some of the intriguing and surprising ways the Game of Kings has changed its shape over the past 150 years.