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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was obsessed with chess as a child. I had learnt it from an older child who lived in the neighbourhood when I was around six. My parents indulged this new obsession by buying me a beautiful chess ...