Believing Impossible Things
Ray Keene OBE looks through the chessboard’s looking glass at the extraordinary rise of online chess, from London’s world championships to a…
Garry Kasparov
Prison and Chess
Ray Keene OBE examines Carl Portman’s pioneering work with chess in prisons, from HMP Hewell to international competition, and the game’s power…
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…
Defender of the Faiths
The first great chess grandmaster did not play in London, Paris or Moscow, but in the dazzling court of the Abbasid Caliphs.
Gens Una Sumus
Chess has crossed more frontiers than any army, conquered more hearts than any empire, and united more cultures than perhaps any other…
World Chess Day Comes to Soho with a Grandmaster Celebration at L'Escargot
The occasion holds particular significance in Soho, where L'Escargot, London's oldest French restaurant, has long been associated with British chess.