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 ...

Sir: Zsuzsa Polgár was the first woman in the world to earn the Grandmaster title in chess. She was also the Women’s World Chess champion from 1996-1999. As it is assumed that the game of chess is all ...