Open Thread: Victor Wembanyama is the superstar the Spurs need

Wemby led the arena in a routine he and the Jackals have been working on. The Jackals, a rowdy bunch formed by the Spurs big ...

JONATHAN BROCKLEBANK: Yes, it's going to be a lonely Christmas... but the gift I've given myself will make sure I'm still having a ball

As I write on Christmas morning, the floor of my office is festooned with wrapping paper. Yes, I have opened my pressies.

This Sacramento ping-pong consultant worked on Timothée Chalamet’s ‘Marty Supreme’

Marty Supreme,” which opens Christmas Eve in theaters nationwide, could be one of 2025’s top films. A Sac State professor ...

Gukesh’s crisis just the nature of the game: Anand

Anand has seen the chess evolution from close quarters. Ever since his breakthrough in the 1980s, he has remained a leading ...

Inside Charlotte chess star’s final days: ‘He was hurting,’ a close friend says

Exclusive: Daniel Naroditsky “felt weight on his shoulders” from cheating allegations, says Peter Giannatos, who found him ...
WhatsOnStage

Chess on Broadway review – checkmate vocals in a rare revival

As more and more flops are rescued from the ash heap of history, it was only a matter of time before Chess got its turn. A musical with a, shall we say, checkered past, it was conceived by Tim Rice, ...
The New Yorker

Nicholas Christopher, Broadway’s Grand Master

The actor Nicholas Christopher—brawny, bald, with a perpetually cocked eyebrow that brings to mind Yul Brynner—strode through the aisles of Tashkent Supermarket in Brighton Beach one afternoon. He ...
The New York Times

A Yacht for Your Yacht

Owners of the world’s most conspicuous playthings are younger, wealthier and increasingly American. Buyers, brokers and visitors toured the superyachts at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show.
Charleston Gazette-Mail

Checkmate, Charleston: New public chess tables set up at Slack Plaza

Charleston resident Richard Doneghy has visited nearly 40 countries. Everywhere he goes, from Paris to Prague, he looks for a chess board. “That’s how I make friends when I travel around the world,” ...
CNET

Duolingo Chess Players Soon Can Play Matches With Others

Chess instruction launches on Android phones, and Duolingo customers with iPhones will soon be able to play chess against each other. Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping content ...
Times of San Diego

Beers by the Bay Chess Club a popular gambit in Pacific Beach

PACIFIC BEACH – Two strangers walked into a bar… and now they’re in a chess club together. The co-founders met on Reddit a year ago looking for chess partners. They started meeting weekly at local ...
CBS News

Daniel Naroditsky, American chess grandmaster, dies at 29

Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster who started as a child prodigy and quickly became one of the most influential American voices in the sport, died Monday. He was 29. The Charlotte Chess Center in ...