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 ...

Chess players are often associated with having a memory as strong as a Rook..oops, I mean an Elephant! “Do you remember all your games?” is a common question posed to chess players! Now that would be ...

Last fortnight, we discussed ‘Pattern Recognition in Chess’, aided by basic checkmate patterns like the Back Rank Checkmate with the rook and the Queen. Let us continue where we left off in our ...

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 ...

Decades after crushing it in international tourneys, this CEO still draws on his 3-step thought process behind every chess move to run his international tech company. Years before the notion of ...

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 ...

Motivated by this gap, she not only excelled as a competitor but also began mentoring other young girls to participate in ...