As board games go, it's hard to get more influential than chess. It's not the oldest game out there, Go is more than a millennium older, but Chess still predates Monopoly by roughly five centuries.

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For a sport that prides itself on logic, chess has spent decades clinging to one of the least logical traditions of all: separating women from men. There are no tackles to absorb, no finish lines to ...

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I freely admit that regular chess isn't quite my jam. It's not that I don't find it a compelling game, there's a good reason why it has stood the test of time. But frankly, I live in an era of the ...