CHESS
January/February 2014
The changing of the guard in the world of chess was achieved not by smash-and-grab play, but by herculean displays of patience
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December 2013
Chess may not seem suited to radio, but in the Sixties the BBC broadcast special programmes featuring the world’s greatest ever players
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November 2013
Borislav Ivanov’s gadget-enhanced attempt to cheat his way to sporting success could have been lifted from a James Bond film
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October 2013
Leonid Stein was a virtuoso player whose unexplained death at 38 robbed the world of his otherworldly attacking brilliance
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Chess
Standpoint’s chess column, written each month by Dominic Lawson, author of The Inner Game.
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