CHESS
September 2014
Is an aptitude for mathematics really an advantage?
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July/August 2014
Albin Planinc, the tragic Slovenian
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June 2014
How chess became a tool of totalitarian Communism
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May 2014
The Lasker-Capablanca showdown of 1914
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Standpoint’s chess column, written each month by Dominic Lawson, author of The Inner Game.
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