Our art critic Deborah Solomon was one of 50 players to go up against a chess grandmaster for Marcel Duchamp’s 139th birthday celebration at MoMA, exploring the game as an art form.

Susan Polgar is the author of Rebel Queen: The Cold War, Misogyny, and the Making of a Grandmaster. Born to a poor Jewish family in Cold War Budapest, Susan Polgar had the odds stacked against her ...