On chess livestreamers. I watch some of these people.

I think this article spends too much time on the structure and prize purses of top-level women's tournaments, which simply aren't the real barriers to women in chess, but it's otherwise good. I don't think I'd ever even heard of Lisa Lane before.

An autobiographical comic in two parts by Scott McCloud.

This looks like an interesting shorthand font to look at sometime.

An enjoyable personal essay about the time Bobby Fischer visited Little Rock to play a simul.

Sports Illustrated's 1961 article on the chess player Lisa Lane.

I grew up listening to Jim Copp Tales.

Erasure: only checks types at compile time
Reification: type checking at run-time