Almost nothing about Linda’s Tavern announces it as a venue for chess. There’s a shaggy buffalo head above the bar, arcade games in the back, and Taylor Swift booming above a near-constant din. It’s not the setting one imagines for playing a famously intense game.
But there are tables. And so on an otherwise quiet Monday, I watched a paradoxical nightlife phenomenon once again unfold, quite literally, at the Capitol Hill bar where Kurt Cobain was supposedly last seen.
Across from the taxidermy, organizers unfurled chess boards across tables as dozens of rowdy young professionals gathered for Chess Club. Conversation and booze flowed freely; a club member who walked
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