Viswanathan Anand has been India’s torchbearer in chess. Along with tennis star Leander Paes, he has embraced sporting longevity, and both are playing their respective sport beyond three decades, more ...

What do Pep Guardiola and Enzo Maresca have in common? Coaches wedded to a certain style of football? Midfielders who became managers? Worked together at Manchester City? Bald? All of these things are ...

The 'chunking' theory of chess playing 5 suggests that expert memory is based on a large database of chunks in long-term memory. A chess grandmaster studies and practises for at least 10 years to ...

The small Great Southern town of Kendenup — population 1,000 — is honouring its school chess champions by turning old street trees into chess pieces. Students from the Kendenup Primary School have ...

It is needless to say how chess is directly related to intelligence. As per a study on 4,000 Venezuelan students, after 4 months of chess instruction a change in the overall IQ of the students was ...