Discover why George R.R. Martin's storytelling method, involving multiple character perspectives, is delaying The Winds of ...

All this rain would have been music to the ears of Ding Liren, the reigning world chess champion ... the press for the last time before the first game on Monday. The way both of them spoke ...

Skill in chess tends to erase color lines ... and curvy with elaborate armrests—office furniture as imagined by Game of Thrones—and tugged the cuffs of his shirt to their proper length ...

Today, the story's timeline in the television adaptation has blown past that of the books. So don't spoil show for Martin — he's apparently a couple of episodes behind on the show's seventh season.

Game of Thrones character Daenerys Targaryen ... studying the kind of power struggles that would later influence his fiction. On weekends he played chess at the grill in the basement of Scott Hall and ...