3 posts tagged ‘chess’
What Magnus Carlsen’s Jeans Have to Do with Chess
The New Yorker,
The fuss around the grand master’s wearing of denim pants to a tournament is a reflection of tensions within the game.
Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: You Don’t Have to Play Chess to Be the Queen
Gizmodo,
I have three chess puzzles for you this week, but you don’t need to know the rules of chess for two of them. These two are variants of the famous eight queens puzzle, which asks solvers to position eight queens on an eight-by-eight board such that no two queens attack each other. The eight queens puzzle requires a… Read more...
Anal Bead Cheating Scandal Returns, This Time with Chinese Chess
Just when I thought I was out, the anal beads pull me back in. Months after the drama between world chess champion Magnus Carlson and young prodigy Hans Niemann ended with an arbitration agreement, the internet isn’t willing to let go of the idea that board game experts can cheat with the aid of vibrating sex toys… Read more...