CHESS
November 2015
Might the world's second-ranked player, Hikaru Nakamura, manage to emulate his countryman Bobby Fischer?
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October 2015
The mysterious phenomenon of aphantasia
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September 2015
A lesser-known Cold War chess clash which left Bobby Fischer the worse for wear
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July/August 2015
How China took to the Western game of chess
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Chess
Standpoint’s chess column, written each month by Dominic Lawson, author of The Inner Game.
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