This unprecedented situation threw the chess world into a tizzy. Until Alekhine’s death, world champions got to pick who they’d face in their title defence. Top players were required to ...

The history of chess is riddled with missed opportunities.

In chess literature there have been many prolific ... They were world champs Emanuel Lasker of Germany, Russia’s Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Tal, and Garry Kasparov and America’s Bobby Fischer.