The Samurai Mind
Five centuries after Miyamoto Musashi wrote The Book of Five Rings, its lessons on strategy, discipline and decision-making remain startlingly relevant. Grandmaster…
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Why The Future Belongs to Players
Beginning with Terence Tao's provocative observation, Grandmaster Raymond Keene OBE examines how chess, football, philosophy, and modern competition reveal a profound shift…
Tony Buzan’s Brain Trust Charity as an instrument of mental good health
The true answer is obvious. If you really want to live long and prosper, it's your brain you have to worry about.
How to thwart those who would inveigle, obfuscate and deceive
If I have to write and think what I am told to write and think, in contravention of what I see to…
Milton’s Cosmic Game of Chess
Some games determine kingdoms. Milton imagined one that determined the destiny of mankind.
Brave New Game
Every generation believes it has discovered a better way to improve humanity. Inevitably, it begins by rewriting the rules.
The Art of the Draw
Not every deadlock is a stalemate, and not every defeat is a checkmate. Chess teaches us the difference.
The Obliteration of Memory
Empires are conquered twice: first by armies, and then by the erasure of memory.
On the Shoulders of Dwarves
The greatest discoveries are often made not by choosing between science and the humanities, but by refusing to recognise the divide.
How a mediaeval thinker out of the box: Stupor Mundi, helped me to solve a Chinese puzzle
Inspiration often comes from unlikely sources.