Chess
Clash of Generations
At the start of May, 14-year-old Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus became the youngest player in history to cross the symbolic 2700…
Helpmates
Participants at the Winton British Solving Championship face six rounds of fiendishly difficult chess problems. The problems have an exam-style…
Puzzling it out
‘This is why you don’t do puzzles, kids,’ drawled Magnus Carlsen, after a lucky escape in a recent blitz game…
A tale of two cities
The ‘Wimbledon of Chess’ is underway in the Netherlands. Meanwhile in Spain, there’s a gaming industry expo. Magnus Carlsen and…












