Last Gasp: The Sunday night reader for 8/1/21

Spies, grandmasters, and terranauts

Queenside

Hou Yifan is one of about 40 women in the top echelon of chess — and a grandmaster who isn’t willing to obsess about the game as much as grandmasters are supposed to. It was particularly interesting to learn of her the same week that Simone Biles opted out of many, perhaps all, of the spots she earned at the Olympics.

To excel in the face of di…