Whether you want to brush up on your cooking abilities or take the plunge and learn something completely new, Masterclass is an excellent way to take control of your schedule and cultivate new skills ...

Carsten Hansen is a FIDE Master (FM) and FIDE Trainer (FT) but what's more impressive is the fact that he has authored close to thirty odd books on chess that have been well received by the audience.

When programming for modern platforms, the restraints are different to those of 30 years ago. Back in the dawn of the microcomputer age, storage and RAM were measured in kilobytes. It simply wasn’t ...

Maybe it’s because I am a chess columnist myself, but one of my heroes in the world of chess is Leonard Barden of England. At 93, Barden is the dean of chess journalists worldwide. He holds the record ...

The estimable Chess Journalists of America has just handed out its 2019 awards and our humble little effort here has once again been named the “best regular newspaper chess column” in the country.

Essay-writing in secondary schools can be as intellectually demanding as playing chess, according to a new report. The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) research suggests writing extended answers ...

I feel like I have a pretty good handle on who George R.R. Martin is these days. He’s a fierce protector of wolves and very generous to fans, he’s a guy who feels a lot of pressure to complete the A ...