The phrase ‘adult beginner’ can sound patronising. It implies you are learning something you should have mastered as a child. But learning is not just for the young.

Walter Tevis, the author of the book upon which the Netflix hit is based, spent his life gambling and drinking in pool halls before turning to chess.

Chess in Cuba.

Bobby Fischer unravels before the 1972 World Chess Championships, a.k.a. the “Match of the Century.”

A profile of Garry Kasparov, who exiled himself from Russia last year and is running for president of FIDE, the governing body of chess. The election has become the dirtiest in FIDE history and a proxy debate over freedom and Russia’s future; Kasparov’s opponent has the full backing of Vladimir Putin.

A profile of Ken Regan, a computer scientist, chess master, and world champion at detecting cheaters in chess.

The evolution of cheating in chess.

A chess prodigy vanishes.

On playing chess and waiting to get arrested.

Inside a chess master’s fiefdom.

How a commuter college in Miami became a chess powerhouse.

“If genius is hard to define, madness is even more so.” One chess champion’s take on the tortured life of another.

A grandmaster on the computers that have bested him and how we have misunderstood the implications of artificial intelligence.