Twelve stories, two minutes each.

Story 1 · 2 minute read ज्या राजाला बक्षीस देता आले नाही बक्षीस इतके छोटे की राजा हसला — आणि इतके मोठे की त्याचे राज्यही ते देऊ शकले नाही. भारत, एक फार जुनी दंतकथा Story 2 · 2 minute read सैन्याची चार अंगे बुद्धिबळ होण्याआधी ते चतुरंग होते — आणि पटावरचे सैन्य खरेखुरे होते. उत्तर भारत, सुमारे 1,500 वर्षांपूर्वी Story 3 · 2 minute read कविता, जी एक घोडा होती एका कवीने एका श्लोकात घोड्याचा प्रवास लपवला — आणि आपल्याला माहीत असलेला तो सर्वात जुना आहे. काश्मीर, सुमारे 1,100 वर्षांपूर्वी Story 4 · 2 minute read मंत्री, जो राणी झाला आठशे वर्षे राजाशेजारचा मोहरा पटावरचा सर्वात कमकुवत होता. मग कोणीतरी एक नियम बदलला. स्पेन आणि इटली, सुमारे 1475 Story 5 · 3 minute read The champion who trusted his eyes He could not read the chess books. He beat the people who wrote them. Punjab and London, 1929 to 1933 Story 6 · 2 minute read The machine with a man inside It beat emperors at chess. It also had a secret. Vienna, 1770 Story 7 · 2 minute read The machine that counted Two hundred years after the fake, a real machine sat down against the world champion. New York, 1997 Story 8 · 2 minute read Ninety-two ways A question in a chess magazine that mathematicians could not leave alone. Germany, 1848 Story 9 · 2 minute read The first queen of chess She won the first women’s world championship — and then went looking for harder games. London, 1927 Story 10 · 3 minute read Three sisters and an experiment A teacher believed that champions are made, not born. He decided to prove it at home. Budapest, the 1970s and 1980s Story 11 · 2 minute read The clock with two faces Once, a player could think for as long as he liked. Then somebody lost patience. London, 1883 Story 12 · 2 minute read The boy who would not wait At eighteen he became the youngest world chess champion there has ever been. Chennai and Singapore, 2024