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The Magnus Carlsen phenomenon has a precedent: that of the marauding Viking, Bent Larsen

'Perhaps it was Philidor's prodigious musical intuition that somehow gave him a special insight into how the chess pieces should be harmonised'

The supremacy of logic over superstition allowed Vishy Anand to become a worthy world champion

Mikhail Tal, the Magician from Riga, goes up against the humourless Mikhail Botvinnik

A list of recommendations that no chess library should be without

Is chess genius a matter of genes, or of graft? The greatest chess players are usually described as “geniuses”. It’s a convenient term — but does anyone know what it means? Where

A world championship match, held 100 years ago next month, may have been partly responsible for the loser's death

Magnus Carlsen, the 19 year-old Norwegian wunderkind, is the next chess genius

Codebreaker Hugh Alexander deserves much more than the obscurity into which his name has fallen  It is often said of chess — by those who don’t play it — that it is

It is Korchnoi’s fighting spirit that has enabled him to achieve victory, aged 78, in a young man’s game Grandmaster chess, more than ever, has become a young man’s game. Fifty years ago or

‘Is it possible that the next generation of computers will solve chess?’ Among the many amusing literary inventions of the science fiction writer Douglas Adams was a computer called Deep Thought. Fans

‘To become world chess champion is to join the immortals. Yet some who have reached the top have been less lionised than others.’