Prodigious Contest In Prospect
The two greatest chess prodigies of the age will soon face each other
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Not Pi In The Sky After All
An Indian genius had little formal education but his findings astounded Cambridge mathematicians
Estonian Elegance
The career of the genius Paul Keres was tragically interrupted by war
Who Will Make Them Tick Again?
A new centre dedicated to horology is an unmissable chance to keep the nation’s town clocks working
Checkmated In Las Vegas
Walter Browne was an American maverick who excelled at more games than one
Margaret Thatcher Versus The Intellectuals
The first female PM faced unprecedented vitriol from snobbish cultural bureaucrats
Standing The Test Of Spacetime
The greatest scientists, such as Einstein, often made their greatest discoveries by thought experiments
America’s Silver Bullet
Might the world’s second-ranked player, Hikaru Nakamura, manage to emulate his countryman Bobby Fischer? The launch of the Hollywood biopic Pawn Sacrifice, with Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer, has given rise to
The Mind’s Eye
The mysterious phenomenon of aphantasia
Corbyn’s Trots
Entryism plagued the Labour Party in the 1970s, and is doing so again
Red Flags Flying Over Parliament Square
The tumultuous day Jeremy Corbyn was crowned Labour leader
Subverting The Superpowers
Efraim Karsh's book on the creation of the modern Middle East is timely but overstates his case