
Bobby Fischer: Quintessential 'Jewish Jock'
This piece comes from Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame, edited by Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy, and published this week by Twelve. A Jew wrote The Natural, but has there ever been...
Chess
This piece comes from Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame, edited by Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy, and published this week by Twelve. A Jew wrote The Natural, but has there ever been...

It should have been a cakewalk. On a Saturday afternoon in 1972 in a seedy hotel conference room in Midtown Manhattan, two men faced off across a chessboard. Well, one of them was a...

"Before he is done," Kasparov says, "Carlsen will have changed our ancient game considerably."