When we first heard about chess boxing, we thought it was a joke. Chess boxing? Could it really be a thing? Turns out, it is, and it's just what it sounds like: alternate rounds of chess and boxing.

The story at the heart of “Checkmate” is a good one, but Ben Mezrich has hustled it into print too quickly. By Dylan Loeb McClain Dylan Loeb McClain has written about chess for 30 years and was the ...

Ben Mezrich is back with a buzzy new book, and this time, he’s tackling one of the wildest scandals to rock the world of chess. In September of that year, Niemann shocked the chess community by ...