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It is a curious feature of modern life that we will marvel at almost anything except ourselves. We gasp at…

Ray Keene OBE looks through the chessboard’s looking glass at the extraordinary rise of online chess, from London’s world championships…

What if the key to better learning is not adding more information, but helping the brain organise the information it…

Raymond Keene OBE argues that equality of opportunity must go hand in hand with academic standards, merit and intellectual freedom…

If I have to write and think what I am told to write and think, in contravention of what I…

Great minds rarely conform. The golden age of chess produced champions whose brilliance was matched only by their colourful eccentricities.

As Hiroshima vanished in the first atomic explosion of war, two Go masters calmly reset their scattered stones and continued…

Before computers conquered chess, one extraordinary mathematician proved that human intuition could still outthink silicon.

Inspiration often comes from unlikely sources.