Where have all the chess stories gone? Chess another causality of the modern electronic era.
I played it in my youth, fifty years ago. I bought books, etc, then life got in the way. When I came back to take a look at it, the notation had changed. I play pool now.
Chess is alive and well in cyberspace my friend. We are but a few days from the Magnus Carlsen - Viswanathan Anand world championship match, which is destined to be epic, IMHO. For one thing, this is the first World Chess Championship that did not feature a Russian, or someone who was born in the old Soviet Union. Compelling stuff. Check it out (pun, shamelessly intended).