Start with Build Up Your Chess 1: The Fundamentals. You get a topic for each lesson, with a couple of examples, clear instruction, followed by exercises to solve by yourself.

Eight players from the West Midlands have taken part in what is thought to be the UK's first chess tournament on board a moving train, to mark International Chess Day. The competitors battled it out ...

The best in the world of chess boxing score somewhere between 1,700 and 2,000 points on the Elo chess-rating system, putting them on a par with those who perform well in the game at club level.