CHESS
July/August 2012
In 1962 Bobby Fisher claimed "the Russians have fixed world chess". He was certainly paranoid but was proved to be partially right
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June 2012
Despite being a keen chess player, Napoleon Bonaparte was more a pawn than a king on the board
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May 2012
Some of the game's greatest have had trouble playing against the clock. Not so Bobby Fischer, who was a lord of time.
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April 2012
The mystique surrounding those chess players who passed before their primes is best tipified in the mercurial Hungarian, Rudolf Charousek
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