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Norwegian to square off against Anand in Sochi for world title
For the past two centuries the capitalist engine has delivered growing incomes for the many, but the latest revolution has mainly boosted skilled high-income workers
Parents are tapping the most brilliant chess brains in India, Bulgaria and Moscow to deliver online tutorials for their offspring via Skype
Why human contests still beat those with computers
Playwright Matt Charman talks about the contest between chessboard and circuitboard in ‘The Machine’
Localisation of financial flows flies in the face of expectations
The 22-year-old Norwegian is set to become the highest-rated chess player of all time. Martin Sandbu meets him in a Lebanese restaurant in London
In a world without innovation and without expansion, it will be much harder to keep democracy going
Garry Kasparov, a vocal critic of Vladimir Putin, admits that chess can be much simpler than politics
The satisfaction derived from besting a computer game on the iPad is immense
Reason to fear IBM’s quiz show-winning computer
Advances in artificial intelligence offer business potentially major benefits
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