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Raymond Keene OBE argues that equality of opportunity must go hand in hand with academic standards, merit and intellectual freedom - and that education should teach…
Five centuries after Miyamoto Musashi wrote The Book of Five Rings, its lessons on strategy, discipline and decision-making remain startlingly relevant. Grandmaster Raymond Keene OBE argues…
Beginning with Terence Tao's provocative observation, Grandmaster Raymond Keene OBE examines how chess, football, philosophy, and modern competition reveal a profound shift in the way excellence…
The true answer is obvious. If you really want to live long and prosper, it's your brain you have to worry about.
What if at least one of the Princes in the Tower was never murdered at all?
If I have to write and think what I am told to write and think, in contravention of what I see to be the facts, what…
Tony Buzan’s prime invention was the Mind Map.
Great minds rarely conform. The golden age of chess produced champions whose brilliance was matched only by their colourful eccentricities.
Some games determine kingdoms. Milton imagined one that determined the destiny of mankind.
Every generation believes it has discovered a better way to improve humanity. Inevitably, it begins by rewriting the rules.
Not every deadlock is a stalemate, and not every defeat is a checkmate. Chess teaches us the difference.
Empires are conquered twice: first by armies, and then by the erasure of memory.
The greatest literary mysteries are not always hidden in forgotten manuscripts. Sometimes they have been lying in plain sight for two thousand years.
Every complex machine comes with an instruction manual. Tony Buzan spent a lifetime asking why the most remarkable machine of all - the human brain -…
From Darwin to Nietzsche, from giraffes to grandmasters, the battle for survival has shaped far more than the natural world.
The greatest discoveries are often made not by choosing between science and the humanities, but by refusing to recognise the divide.
As Hiroshima vanished in the first atomic explosion of war, two Go masters calmly reset their scattered stones and continued their game.
Before computers conquered chess, one extraordinary mathematician proved that human intuition could still outthink silicon.