The Beverly Hills hotel and the Chateau Marmont hotel are both on which Los Angeles thoroughfare? Whose novels include the 1990s international bestseller The Shipping News? What was the married name ...

Cue BBC Two’s Chess Masters: the Endgame, complete with ominous music, expert commentators talking us through moves in hushed ...

Playing with black pieces, Levrencic chose the Sicilian defence, but the game took an unexpected turn when Venkatesh sacrificed a pawn early to gain developmental advantage. Facing a challenging ...

The Indian scored a total of seven victories and four draws to end up on nine points out of a possible 11 and when the final round pairings were announced it was clear that a draw would be enough for ...

The history of chess is riddled with missed opportunities.

A few months later, Don Tidey was kidnapped by the Provisional IRA in Dublin in an operation that was straight out of the Sicilian mafia ... As the gardaí and Irish Defence Forces closed in ...

St. Armands Key (USA) 17-4 (8-8) Loom 2p,3w1/4,rddn out, won at Fair Grounds 1m gd in Feb beating Sicilian Defense (8-8) by 4 3/4l, 12 ran. Le Gris (USA) 9-2 (8-8) Ins winner, doggedly ...

Koneru Humpy, India's top woman chess player, balances motherhood and her career with grace. After a hiatus, she made a ...

How a well-liked Ivy League grad accused of the United Healthcare CEO shooting became one of the most debated murder suspects in recent history ...

Jonathan Finlayson’s Sicilian Defense, Steve Coleman’s Natal Eclipse, Kate Gentile’s Mannequins, Mario Pavone’s Blue Dialect Trio, Anna Webber’s Simple Trio, Ches Smith’s We All Break, the Dave King ...