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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