Brad Shorr
What you’re looking at above is considered by some to be the best move ever played in the history of chess! Who made it? Frank James Marshall, one of the finest grandmasters the United States has ever produced. Despite his scholarly appearance, Marshall’s chess game was anything but. He was…
When I was a boy, I remember having civil defense drills in our grade school. “Why are we crouching under our desks?” I’d ask. “Because there could be a nuclear war between us and the Soviet Union that will destroy the world. We want to take safety precautions.” What a…
Leo Tolstoy strove for something few artists attempt. He tried to live a moral life — so much so that in his later years he renounced his earlier novels, novels considered by many to be the finest ever written. He spent the latter half of his career primarily writing essays…
No pantheon of chess legends would be complete without Bobby Fischer, the most famous chess player of all time and one of the most explosive in a field noted for its volatile personalities. 1972. For those of you who don’t remember or weren’t around, that was the year Robert James Fischer…