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…
William Shakespeare
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,…
Survival of the Fattest
From Darwin to Nietzsche, from giraffes to grandmasters, the battle for survival has shaped far more than the natural world.