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Personalities at Play in 1904 Cambridge Springs Chess Tournament The story of four top players and who prevailed by Jonathan Burdick chessgames.com The 1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress gathered some of the time's greatest talents, and most disparate personalities. Among them were the calculating German mathematician and reigning world champion Dr. Emanuel Lasker, who had recently recovered from a nearly fatal bout with typhoid fever; the modest and agreeable Harry Nelson Pillsbury, who could play bl...

fighting an “infodemic” of rumors and misinformation, and you can help. Find out what we’ve learned and how to inoculate yourself against COVID-19 misinformation. Read the latest fact checks about the vaccines. Submit any questionable rumors and “advice” you encounter. Become a Founding Member to help us hire more fact-checkers. And, please, follow the WHO for guidance on protecting your community from the disease. The ball drop in New York City’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve is going to look a little bit different in 2020. In fact, this will be the first time since that ...

Longreads Best of 2020: Profiles All Best of Longreads illustrations by Kjell Reigstad. At GQ, Mosi Secret offers a moving portrait of Joe Louis Cole, Larry Barbine, Rev. Joey Crutcher, Selwyn Jones, Jacob Blake III, and Michael Brown Sr., who are the fathers and father figures of Michael Brown, Terence Crutcher, Daniel Prude, Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, and Jacob Blake — all Black men who were killed by police brutality. Their lives were transformed by the worst kind of news, a blow that left everything that followed so suddenly and painfully different. Not only have they suffered the...