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  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    Chess
    Candidates for Carlsen’s crown stumble as teens surge

    Plus — can you win like the world No2?

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    Chess
    Chess: world's oldest grandmaster, Yuri Averbakh, dies at 100

    Puzzle: find White’s two-move winning sequence

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    Chess
    Countdown to candidates as favourite Firouzja reappears after five months

    Puzzle: can you do better than resigning?

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    Chess
    Magnus Carlsen plays 1 f3 in tournament game

    Puzzle: find the fast route to mate

  • Tuesday, 19 April, 2022
    Chess
    France’s Firouzja leads four teens with eyes on Carlsen’s crown

    Puzzle: find White’s immediately winning move

  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
    Chess
    Chess solutions
  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
    Chess
    Half a century after Fischer, chess’s icons are now Carlsen and Stockfish

    In this week’s puzzle: checkmate the white king in five moves 

  • Monday, 4 April, 2022
    Chess
    Open-looking Candidates race could lead to world championship split

    Puzzle: find White's only move to mate in three

  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
    Chess
    Chessable sponsor deal boosts English and British championships

    Puzzle: find the missing moves

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
    Chess
    Chess: World title challenger Karjakin banned while Fide’s Russian president comes under pressure

    Puzzle: find the grandmaster’s winner

  • Monday, 14 March, 2022
    Chess
    Oxford defeat Cambridge again in chess’s longest running annual match

    Puzzle: find the Ukrainian’s winning move

  • Monday, 7 March, 2022
    Chess
    England trio play No1 for Bundesliga clubs as absent Ukrainians are honoured with sunflowers

    Puzzle: find the English grandmaster’s winning move

  • Thursday, 3 March, 2022
    Chess
    Russia stripped of 150-nation Olympiad while Carlsen overcomes Covid

    Puzzle: can you solve this tricky pawn endgame?

  • Thursday, 24 February, 2022
    Chess
    Covid-hit Carlsen loses four games as Russian trio reach Airthings semi-finals  

    Puzzle: just a single line of play, but ‘You’ll never guess the key!’

  • Monday, 14 February, 2022
    Chess
    British league returns as over the board chess revives

    Puzzles: find the 4NCL tactical coups

  • Monday, 7 February, 2022
    Chess
    Men win Gibraltar’s Battle of the Sexes as England’s talent impresses

    Puzzle: find the Bletchley codebreaker’s winning tactic

  • Monday, 31 January, 2022
    Chess
    Unbeaten Carlsen dominates Wijk but regrets wins that got away

    Puzzle: find the hidden move which leads to mate in three

  • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
    Chess
    Chess: Carlsen closes in at Wijk while women’s team lead Battle of the Sexes

    Puzzle: what did the grandmaster miss?

  • Wednesday, 19 January, 2022
    Chess
    Carlsen’s bid for record rating stalls as India’s teenagers shine at Wijk

    Puzzle: how did Short force Timman to resign?

  • Monday, 10 January, 2022
    Chess
    A rare week of English chess achievement 

    Puzzle: how can White defeat the bishops of opposite colours draw?

  • Tuesday, 4 January, 2022
    Chess
    Carlsen fails again in world blitz as tie-break rule controversy continues

    Puzzle — find Black’s winning move while avoiding White’s sneaky trap

  • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
    Chess
    Global chess events boom while the game in Britain reels from Omicron

    Puzzle: find Nepo’s winning move

  • Monday, 13 December, 2021
    Chess
    Carlsen crushes blunder-prone Russian challenger 4-0 in quest for all-time No 1 

    Puzzle: can you mate in five like Nepo?

  • Thursday, 9 December, 2021
    Chess
    Carlsen close to retaining world title as Russian challenger becomes blunder-prone

    Plus — in this week’s puzzle: can you do better than Magnus Carlsen?

  • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
    Chess
    Five draws in $2m world title series as champion and challenger trade memory banks

    Puzzle: how can White win despite being a queen down?

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