When I was a kid learning to play chess, I had one big question that never had a good answer: “why?” Why does the horse guy move in an L shape? Don’t horses normally like to move forward? And why can ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Look at that glorious mess up there. “That’s not chess,” you say. Damn right, it’s chess on drugs. Get this game another hit of the good stuff, ...

is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. If you play enough chess, watching a ...