Apr 8
In what scholars have called the largest shake-up of the game’s rule set in centuries, the International Chess Federation announced Tuesday that it was adding a race car piece to the playing board. “In all officially sanctioned matches played from today forward, the pawn immediately in front of a player’s king will be replaced with a sick little hot rod that can move any number of squares horizontally, vertically, or in a circle like it’s doing donuts,” said the president of the game’s global governing body, Arkady Dvorkovich, who imitated the sound of a revving engine with his mouth as he maneuvered the new race car piece around a chessboard in a demonstration match with grandmaster Magnus Carlsen.
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