Enchant The story of a game of chess that became an extravagant musical composition. Always a metaphor in miniature for the tangled paths of human power, chess has captivated the world’s brightest and most eccentric minds. Most of them know its secret symbolism and the possibility that it’s more than a simple board game. From the writer Vladimir Nabokov, the directors Stanley Kubrick and Charlie Chaplin, to the great Leo Tolstoy, and composer Sergei Prokofiev, to Lenin and Napoleon, the list of chess lovers (a list described by Borges as “geometric and bizarre”) also included Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. Read More...