Ray Keene OBE looks through the chessboard’s looking glass at the extraordinary rise of online chess, from London’s world championships…
The Howard Staunton Society gathered on Greek Street on 9th September for an evening on chess in prisons – and…
Five centuries after Miyamoto Musashi wrote The Book of Five Rings , its lessons on strategy, discipline and decision-making remain…
Beginning with Terence Tao's provocative observation, Grandmaster Raymond Keene OBE examines how chess, football, philosophy, and modern competition reveal a…
Howard Staunton devoted years to editing Shakespeare, but was England's greatest chess master equally drawn to the Bard because Shakespeare…
What do Howard Staunton and Leonardo da Vinci have in common? Above all, a remarkable versatility, a capacity to excel…
“Via the squares on a chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which…
For Barry Martin, chess was never merely a game and art was never merely an image. Somewhere between Staunton and…
The first great chess grandmaster did not play in London, Paris or Moscow, but in the dazzling court of the…
The occasion holds particular significance in Soho, where L'Escargot, London's oldest French restaurant, has long been associated with British chess.
Conan Doyle's attitude to war seems, from the tenor of this passage, to be one of stoic acceptance, rather than…
The greatest discoveries are often made not by choosing between science and the humanities, but by refusing to recognise the…
