Sometimes, people boast ‘I could beat you with one hand tied behind my back’, or ‘I can do that blindfolded’. The picture below, (although a blindfold is missing, but the guy in center is facing away, ...

“One feature above all determines the strength of a chess player: the undivided attention which must absolutely isolate the player from the outside world.” _ World champion Alexander Alekhine ...

Perhaps an inspiring way to begin the New Year is to focus on one of the finest chess attackers of all time, Dr Alexander Alekhine, (Moscow 1892-Estoril, Portugal 1946). Alekhine was an undisputed ...

My association with chess began in the summer of 1975. I was 12 years old and living in Lansdowne Court just across the road from Gorky Sadan. My friend Arun Mitra took me to Gorky Sadan to watch a ...

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