It was a century ago that a remarkable American chess career was launched. It was in late 1920 that a diminutive 8-year-old prodigy from Lodz, Poland, named Szmul Rzeszewski made the journey across ...

Famed mobster Salvatore ‘Sammy the Bull’ Gravano’s daughter says that when her father flipped, she felt like she had been “stabbed in the heart.” As for the feared Gambino crime family underboss who ...

After 10 days of playing the thirty-fourth annual Western Chess Congress closed with Reuben Fine, 19-year-old New Yorker, retaining the title for a second year. Samuel Reshevsky, Detroiter, who ...