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The Boat Race of the Brain
The annual contest between the teams of Oxford and Cambridge Universities is the oldest surviving fixture in the chess world [...]
Raymond Keene
@times_chess
Raymond Dennis Keene OBE is an English chess grandmaster, a FIDE International Arbiter, a chess organiser, and a journalist and author. He is currently the chess columnist at The Times.
Articles by Raymond Keene
Why play chess?
In mid 17th century Japan, Miyamoto Musashi, the invincible Samurai warrior, wrote Go Rin No Sho, A Book of Five Rings, a [...]
Chess: Mastery and Metaphor
How chess began
The ancient ancestor of chess was an Arabic game called shatranj. It was popular in Baghdad by the 8th [...]
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