“I came here to get a Ph.D. in American literature, and here I am, with pictures of American writers on the wall—a chess vendor.” That’s Imad Khachan, the owner of Chess Forum, the only remaining ...

Nicolas Heller has become the premier Instagram chronicler of the city’s characters. On @newyorknico he has interviewed Tiger Hood (the golfer who hits milk cartons in Times Square) and the proprietor ...

The Chess Forum is steeped in history. The shop's yellowing walls are cluttered with framed photos of grand masters and the owner proudly displays vintage sets, including a civil war chess set with ...

For three decades, the cluttered Village Chess Shop, on Thompson Street, has been a haven of tranquillity from the dirt-weed dealers and toothless hucksters who control the tables at Washington Square ...

Like the great grand master Garry Kasparov, Imad Khachan carefully weighs every move he makes. So, last October, nearly a decade after launching the Chess Forum on Thompson Street in Greenwich Village ...

Stephen Dick's decision to open a store in Pitman was calculated like a chess move. All the King's Men, a store that specializes in chess products and board games, began five years ago as an online ...

New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood is famous as a place of quaint tree-lined streets where lovers, artists, and aficionados of offbeat nightlife can feel at home. One interesting locale ...