It was in 2012 that the obsession began. Starting out as a nagging question that has been repeatedly asked both before and since. If chess was designed today, how would the game differ? Would we continue riding horses into battle and do royalty still fight their wars on a square grid with two biomes?
From Abraham Lincoln to Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein to Stephen Hawking, John Lennon to Ray Charles, William Shakespeare to Oscar Wilde – chess has permeated the very fabric of culture, politics, science and art. It has inspired poems, revolutions and even a few bar fights.