Mezrich traces the personal histories and circumstances leading up to a chess game played in September 2022 in St. Louis as ...

Magnus Carlsen hadn’t considered his upstart American opponent a formidable foe. After an unexpected loss, he leveled a ...

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It’s a conundrum that Ben Mezrich, a prolific and successful non-fiction writer, probes in Checkmate: Genius, Scandal and the ...

Carlsen, then 32 and a five-time World Championship, was widely considered the greatest player in the millennium-and-a-half ...

Ben Mezrich, 'Checkmate: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess' author, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss ...