Checkmate.

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 ...

There are just 32 pieces on a chessboard, but the number of patterns in which those pieces can move in the course of an individual game are astronomical. Still, as these maps show, despite all those ...

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 ...