Chess players are often associated with having a memory as strong as a Rook..oops, I mean an Elephant! “Do you remember all your games?” is a common question posed to chess players! Now that would be ...

Last fortnight, we discussed ‘Pattern Recognition in Chess’, aided by basic checkmate patterns like the Back Rank Checkmate with the rook and the Queen. Let us continue where we left off in our ...

I was obsessed with chess as a child. I had learnt it from an older child who lived in the neighbourhood when I was around six. My parents indulged this new obsession by buying me a beautiful chess ...

Sal Chehayeb teaches children how to play chess and, in doing so, hopes they become better students. Chehayeb, 36, of Royal Oak teaches at 14 different schools – working with students from ...

Sir: Zsuzsa Polgár was the first woman in the world to earn the Grandmaster title in chess. She was also the Women’s World Chess champion from 1996-1999. As it is assumed that the game of chess is all ...