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In honor of the 44th Chess Olympiad, we at Chess.com asked the question: If you could put every country's best five players ever on the same team, how good would those teams be? Now there are many arguments, and not just in chess, about how good players of the past really are. But for this article, we...

THE planespotters were out in force last week, when Prestwick Airport played host to five F/A-18 Hornets from the US Marine Corps. On their way to…

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Bloody Marys, roast dinners, crosswords and a panel discussing Ukraine are on the menu when one day festival brings the broadsheets alive in Primrose Hill

The most exciting and talked-about game of the 2021 World Championship was game 6. Statistically, the sixth game of a World Championship match has yielded more decisive results than any other game. This one proved to be no exception, as records kept tumbling. The game had various layers of action and consequences. GM Sundararajan Kidambi explains the game arising out of Catalan opening. | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

A poignant look at the life of 46-year-old Mark Rowson from Aberdeen who was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teenager.

Feature A graphic designer downsizes to spend more time thinking, studying and designing without commercial studio pressures. What could possibly go right? By Simon Esterson. Portrait by Philip Sayer [EXTRACT] For Jim Sutherland, design projects are all about ideas. There is no signature style applied across his work; no obsession with a group of typefaces. Instead, each project has at its core an idea that determines its visual direction. The identity for the Kings Place music cent...

€19.95 Bad timing Wesley So defeated Magnus Carlsen in two consecutive finals of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, and both times he did it on special dates, first on the world champion’s 30th birthday and now on Valentine’s Day. The ever-humble American grandmaster later apologized for having ruined his opponent’s celebrations. Wesley So published two new opening DVDs: 1.b3, the so called Nimzo-Larsen-Attack, for White and his black secrets in the modern Italian. Get ...

“We focused on the literal idea of multiperspective,” he says. “Lots of views from different angles.” This reflected the organisation’s approach too, as the debates are “not simple but multifaceted and multilayered”, Sutherland adds. The designer says that the same words kept cropping up throughout the initial discussions: “Thoughtful, beautiful, playful, experimental and transformative”. The team used typography to embody these concepts. “We initially worked on variations o...

€29.90 Van Foreest and Tari score It will all be decided during the weekend, and it seems all but impossible for Magnus Carlsen to clinch and eighth tournament victory in Wijk aan Zee. The world champion is 1½ points behind sole leader Anish Giri, as he could not defeat him in their direct encounter on Friday. Scarcely any world champion has managed to captivate chess lovers to the extent Carlsen has. The enormously talented Norwegian hasnt been systematically trained within ...