Chess/The Corner of the Immortals

Only someone very exceptional, destined for the summit of chess, can play so deeply and sophisticatedly in their adolescence

After three hunger strikes to emigrate from the Soviet Union, the Jewish dissident was a two-time US champion and produced gems like this one

The brilliant Russian composer, one of the best in history, turns the geometry of the board and the concept of ‘zugzwang’ (the obligation to move leads to defeat) into art