Historical clue formulations

• It's all there in black and white — 2026-03-01
• Game ending in "mate" — 2023-10-02
• "A foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time," per Shaw — 2023-06-15
• It has thousands of openings — 2022-05-22
• "The Queen's Gambit" game — 2022-02-21
• The mating game? — 2022-01-05
• "The gymnasium of the mind," per Blaise Pascal — 2021-12-24
• Game of checkers? — 2021-08-14
• "The gymnasium of the mind," per Pascal — 2020-08-04
• Game on an 8x8 board — 2019-09-30
• See instructions — 2019-07-07
• "___ makes man wiser and clear-sighted": Vladimir Putin — 2019-01-06
• "Life is a kind of ___": Benjamin Franklin — 2017-10-18
• "As elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency," per Raymond Chandler — 2015-10-24
• Setting for a castle — 2015-02-22
• Game in which pieces can be forked — 2014-08-20
• What a check might be delivered in — 2014-08-15
• Magnus Carlsen's game — 2014-04-09
• Game with forks and pins — 2013-01-25
• Benjamin Franklin's "The Morals of ___" — 2011-02-10
• Game with knights — 2010-12-14
• Its openings are often studied — 2010-01-02
• Knight's realm? — 2009-08-11
• The mating game? — 2007-05-14
• "Through the Looking-Glass" game — 2006-07-28
• Setting for a check — 2006-07-27
• Speed ___ — 2006-03-25
• Game played on 64 squares — 2005-03-28
• Mating game — 2003-08-24
• Game with pins — 2002-03-28
• Game of kings and queens — 2000-07-18
• Battle of wits — 1998-12-12
• Deep Blue's game — 1998-06-29
• Kasparov's game — 1997-11-10
• Deep Blue specialty — 1997-10-17
• Castle locale — 1997-08-24
• Black-and-white set — 1997-07-19
• Popular newspaper column — 1997-04-13
• Kind of board — 1997-01-23
• 1988 Tim Rice musical — 1995-06-11
• This puzzle's theme — 1995-05-23
• 1988 Tim Rice musical — 1994-11-28
• Judit Polgar's game — 1994-06-28