Political Pundit Whose Passion Is for the Fate of Kings

[Scott Tortorice]

I've come across a few of his chess writings before:

Political Pundit Whose Passion Is for the Fate of Kings

Krauthammer became hooked on the game when he was 20 — he is now 60 — and visited a friend in Cambridge, Mass. He found his friend’s roommate sitting with a chess set and an unfamiliar device.

“I said, ‘What is that?’ ” Krauthammer recalled, “And he said, ‘That is a chess clock.’ I had just come in from the plane. It was 10 o’clock at night, and I sat down to play and didn’t get up until 5 in the morning. I had found something that I loved, and I was in deep trouble.”

I wonder if we can get him to play in our next tourney....