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

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 ...

Inspiration and controversy alike still surround the 1948 match tournament.Why for example was ...

Howard Staunton, the organiser of London 1851 and writer of the book, was the epitome of mid-Vict...

This book recounts the third of the five chapters in the half-decade long rivalry which erupted b...

The St. Petersburg Grand International Masters' Tournament of 1914 was undoubtedly the most impor...