The world's best chess player, Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, swapped the chess board for the poker tables Wednesday and lost a $17,095 pot by playing the worst possible starting hand. The reigning ...

Maurice Ashley is one of the best chess players in the world. This is what happened when he sat down to play against an über-confident chess player in Washington Square Park in New York City.

The chess hustler took one look and clearly thought this would be easy. I let him get comfortable, play fast, and settle into that confidence before the position started turning against him. By the ...

In Washington Square Park, they don’t agree to draws. The first time I sat down at a black marble table to play one of Manhattan’s celebrated chess hustlers, I weathered the attack and simplified into ...