‘The thing for which Fischer’s friends most value him is an elusive purity of spirit, an integrity of purpose which springs from his respect for chess not just as a game or an intellectual discipline, but something eternal, beautiful and true. This unbending dedication does…
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Eternal, Beautiful and True
July 10, 2017
‘The thing for which Fischer’s friends most value him is an elusive purity of spirit, an integrity of purpose which springs from his respect for chess not just as a game or an intellectual discipline, but something eternal, beautiful and true. This unbending dedication does...
The Underdog
June 23, 2017
The Grandmaster scowled at the autograph hunter and dutifully scribbled on the ticket. He had just blundered a game away, losing horribly in under 25 moves. That he, a World Championship candidate no less, had crushed his young English opponent in a simultaneous display the...
'All the Potentialities of Vice'
June 10, 2017
CHESS AND CHARACTER. To the Editor of The Daily Mail. Sir,—There appears to be a recrudescence of interest in the perennial game of chess. Most of us can play, indifferently or well; most of us play for amusement. But I wonder whether it is generally...
How Deep Blue Knew
June 3, 2017
Daniel Johnson reviews Garry Kasparov’s Deep Thinking Times, 3 June 2017, p.16. We know exactly why Deep Blue knew that its eighth (not seventh) move, Nxe6, was winning by force: it was programmed to play this well-known winning line.
The Perfect Suicide
May 12, 2017
Jeroen van de Weijer Should we still be playing suicide chess (also known as ‘antichess’, ‘losing chess’, etc.)? After all, computer analysis by Mark Watkins (University of Sydney) has recently shown that White wins (1 e3!) against all defences. In my view, this should...
Ilyumzhinov Hires Campaign Manager
April 21, 2017
Kirsan’s Election Slogans “Chess FIDE Fidelity” (2006) “One World, One Vision” (2010) “FIDE First”, “Onward and Upward” (2014) “I Have My Friends, I Have My Lawyers” (2018) See also Ilyumzhinov to Run for FIDE President in 2018 Ilyumzhinov Loses Even More Power as FIDE...
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