Mezrich traces the personal histories and circumstances leading up to a chess game played in September 2022 in St. Louis as ...

Magnus Carlsen hadn’t considered his upstart American opponent a formidable foe. After an unexpected loss, he leveled a ...

Carlsen, then 32 and a five-time World Championship, was widely considered the greatest player in the millennium-and-a-half ...

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Ben Mezrich, 'Checkmate: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess' author, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss ...

Mezrich is back with a buzzy new book, and this time, he’s tackling one of the wildest scandals to rock the world of chess.

It’s a conundrum that Ben Mezrich, a prolific and successful non-fiction writer, probes in Checkmate: Genius, Scandal and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If the deals close, it’s a reunion for Fielder and Stone, who collaborated on Showtime’s The Curse. Fielder is attached to direct, ...

There are several sports that combine multiple two disciplines, such as biathlon (cross-country skiing), nordic combined (ski jumping, cross-country skiing) and the decathlon or heptathlon in track ...

Chess is currently in the middle of its third boom in popularity in recent years. The ancient sport had its first popularity boom during COVID lockdowns when many people, including prominent streamers ...