The very word “chess” conjures up thoughts of Philidor, José Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Samuel Reshevsky (whom I played, along with 27 others Reshevsky took on simultaneously, and beat them all, many years ago), Nabokov’s novel The Defense and VN’s own diabolically clever chess problems, crazy Bobby Fischer, Adoubovich, Gary Kasparov, Magnus Carlsen, and Big Blue. I shudder […]