CHESS
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.
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
April 2012
The mystique surrounding those chess players who passed before their primes is best tipified in the mercurial Hungarian, Rudolf Charousek
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
March 2012
In a sport over-populated with men, 17-year-old Chinese wunderkind Hou Yifan's sheer focus establishes her as a contender to be reckoned with
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
January/February 2012
The unheralded Kazakh Rashid Nezhmetdinov was universally admired by his peers for his astonishing attacking ferocity
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
Chess
Standpoint’s chess column, written each month by Dominic Lawson, author of The Inner Game.
More Columns
More content
- Bloomsbury's Teenage Terrorist
- The Empire is Still Evil
- Kneejerk Responses
- Anti-Semitic Islamism
- Brave Bombers
- Loose Cannon
- The Price of Cameron's Compassion
- ONLINE ONLY: Letter from Bamian
- Choppy Waters
- David Cameron's Difficulties with Girls
- Science Is Golden
- It's Crunch Time for Britain in Europe
- Artistic Suffering
- Orwellians in Tokyo
- Jerusalem: No Via Media for Anglicans
- Goal-hangers and Glory-hunters
- Politics of Self-interest
- ONLINE ONLY: Iraq is not a Four Letter Word
- Jerusalem: No Via Media for Anglicans
- St Gilbert of Fleet Street
Popular Standpoint topics
