Cue BBC Two’s Chess Masters: the Endgame, complete with ominous music, expert commentators talking us through moves in hushed ...

The Beverly Hills hotel and the Chateau Marmont hotel are both on which Los Angeles thoroughfare? Whose novels include the 1990s international bestseller The Shipping News? What was the married name ...

India's Pranav Venkatesh clinched the World Junior Chess Championship (Under-20) held in Montenegro, remaining undefeated with seven victories and fou ...

Prague Masters: Praggnanandhaa held again, Chithambaram scores crushing win against Keymer Aravindh faced the Sicilian defense and Shankland equalised quite easily. An exchange spree led to a very ...

The history of chess is riddled with missed opportunities.

St. Armands Key (USA) 17-4 (8-8) Loom 2p,3w1/4,rddn out, won at Fair Grounds 1m gd in Feb beating Sicilian Defense (8-8) by 4 3/4l, 12 ran. Le Gris (USA) 9-2 (8-8) Ins winner, doggedly ...

A few months later, Don Tidey was kidnapped by the Provisional IRA in Dublin in an operation that was straight out of the Sicilian mafia ... As the gardaí and Irish Defence Forces closed in ...

Koneru Humpy, India's top woman chess player, balances motherhood and her career with grace. After a hiatus, she made a ...

Jonathan Finlayson’s Sicilian Defense, Steve Coleman’s Natal Eclipse, Kate Gentile’s Mannequins, Mario Pavone’s Blue Dialect Trio, Anna Webber’s Simple Trio, Ches Smith’s We All Break, the Dave King ...