Opinion

Chess as metaphor for Life

As a chess grandmaster, author of over 200 books on chess and mind sports, and someone who has dedicated his life to…

Why The Future Belongs to Players

Beginning with Terence Tao's provocative observation, Grandmaster Raymond Keene OBE examines how chess, football, philosophy, and modern competition reveal a profound shift…

Staunton, Shakespeare and Chess

Howard Staunton devoted years to editing Shakespeare, but was England's greatest chess master equally drawn to the Bard because Shakespeare himself understood…

Does the word chess originate with Julius Caesar’s name?

Do words carry hidden histories? Beginning with neglected lines from Hamlet and Tamburlaine, Grandmaster Raymond Keene follows an eccentric trail through Shakespeare,…

Did Leonardo da Vinci play chess?

What do Howard Staunton and Leonardo da Vinci have in common? Above all, a remarkable versatility, a capacity to excel across a…

Brave New Game

Every generation believes it has discovered a better way to improve humanity. Inevitably, it begins by rewriting the rules.