Big Joe Turner was the greatest of the blues shouters. For more than five decades, from Kansas Ci...

The King's Indian is noted as a dynamic counter-attacking defence par excellence. This book descr...

Ray Keene was the first British player ever to gain a World Chess Federation Grandmaster result (...

Inspired by both Daniel Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year' (1722) and 'The King', an antholog...

In 1608, Roderigo de Vivero, soldier and administrator, set out from Acapulco to take up his post...

Not since Murray in 1913 has there been a seriously researched history of chess which is also rea...

Leonid Stein's brilliant chess career, cut tragically short in 1973, included overwhelming victor...

This moving autobiography of a Berber woman from the village of Tizi-Hibel in the Kabilie Mountai...

Moscow, in the autumn of 1984, was the setting for a clash between two of the all-time greats of ...

In 1546, Pierre Belon - already a naturalist of some renown - travelled to Constantinople in the ...

London 1922 was the greatest tournament held in the capital of the British Empire since Emanuel L...

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