Kalā (कला) means art. This humble nook of the web is devoted to chess composition, the aspect of the game where it attains its most refined, deliberate — in a word — artistic expression. If you’re a chess enthusiast who enjoys unravelling a knotty puzzle, you’ll find plenty here to test your skill. Yet chess problems and studies, as we hope you’ll soon discover, are more than just puzzles. They form a whole new, parallel world, with a logic and order all its own.