CHESS
October 2015
The mysterious phenomenon of aphantasia
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
September 2015
A lesser-known Cold War chess clash which left Bobby Fischer the worse for wear
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
July/August 2015
How China took to the Western game of chess
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
June 2015
Why does the gender gap persist in chess?
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
Chess
Standpoint’s chess column, written each month by Dominic Lawson, author of The Inner Game.
More Columns
More content
- They Never Saw The Crash Coming
- European Profligacy
- Party Lines
- Bacon's Hidden History
- The Voice of Conscience
- Independence Will Do Nothing for Scots
- Politics of Self-interest
- Serendipity In La Serenissima
- Minimising Massacres
- Privatise the BBC
- Travels with Betjeman
- Truth, Freedom and Fear
- ISIS and the West: Neutrality absolves nothing
- Jews, Christians and Judaeo-Christians
- Cage Fighting
- Excellent Drama? Elementary
- Burdening Banks Will Sink the Recovery — and the Tories
- Save the NYPD So It Can Save the City
- The Killer Instinct
- Underrated: Tony Blair
Popular Standpoint topics

















