Grandmaster

A firsthand account of the dramatic 2016 World Chess Championship between Norway''s Magnus Carlsen and Russia''s Sergey Karjakin, which mirrored the world''s geopolitical unrest and rekindled a global fascination with the sport.

The first week of November 2016, as a crowd of people swarmed outside of Manhattan’s Trump Tower to rail against the election of Donald Trump, hundreds more descended on th...