Chess.com cofounder Danny Rensch says that “necessity breeds genius.” An onslaught of life crises and a dash of self-delusion ...

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During a visit to the Berkshires in 1891, the man who operated Mephisto, a chess-playing automaton, took on 12 members of the ...

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