J.C. Hallman

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Chess: more than just a game?? J.C. Hallman says it “represent[s] intimacy, economics, politics, theories bleeding from rhetoric to outrageous science." His book is The Chess Artist: Genius, Obsession, and the World's Oldest Game.
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