C HESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent fans might concede that, as a spectacle, watching two players think for long ...

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Intelligence is attractive, and so are these 11 chess grandmasters and players, whose moves have us locked in checkmate.