Danny Rensch gets sweaty when he plays chess. He gets especially sweaty when he plays a version of the game that has chess’s best and brightest dashing around a giant board, doing push-ups on ...
Heat of more than 100 degrees earlier this week did not keep people from standing in the sun and moving giant chess pieces around on the black-and-white checkerboard painted on the concrete in front ...
Tim Myers has had a passion for chess since he was in school. A retired mechanic, he has built massive chess pieces out of scrap steel that can weigh 800 pounds, approach 12 feet in height, and are ...
Philanthropist Jeanne Sinquefield posed a question to a group of Scouts camping on her property in Folk: Would any of them be interested in creating an oversized chess set to be used by the public?