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The title of this post is borrowed from a question I recently saw on Quora. Answers seemed to range from 'No' to "sure, but it ...

The AlphaGo program not only continues to beat the best Go players in the world, but it is also influencing how the game is being played. Ta...

I suspect chess players aren't really a superstitious lot. All that rational thinking at the board probably extends to real life, leavin...

While holidaying in the UK I took some delight in making the obvious comparisons between the President of FIDE and the President of the USA....

Very early on I learned that you should put your pawns on the opposite coloured square to your bishop (if you have one). Later I learned tha...

As I get older (and more forgetful) I have a tendency to screw up my openings more and more. It is both a function of not learning all the l...

A challenge for readers of this blog. Have a look at the game below and decide which century it was played in (or which century it belongs t...