The play of chess grandmasters Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren, battling it out for the world title, has oscillated between touches of brilliance and uncharacteristic mistakes which their peers ...

Mr. Myers, a longtime Davenport resident and chess master who died last December, wrote several books on unusual chess openings.

Grandmasters interviewed by Reuters described the world championship match, played in Astana, Kazakhstan as unpredictable and unusual with Nepomniachtchi leading 4.5-3.5 in the best-of-14 match.