Ray Keene OBE

Draughts, also known as Checkers

Before computers conquered chess, one extraordinary mathematician proved that human intuition could still outthink silicon.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, German intellectuals and the First World War

Conan Doyle's attitude to war seems, from the tenor of this passage, to be one of stoic acceptance, rather than enthusiastic celebration.

How a mediaeval thinker out of the box: Stupor Mundi, helped me to solve a Chinese puzzle

Inspiration often comes from unlikely sources.