Dominic Lawson talks to writer and former alcoholic John Healy. How did chess help Healy give up the booze? And why does he think the world of chess is harsher than life on street? Show more
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Dominic Lawson interviews former Soviet dissident and Israeli politician Natan Sharansky over a game of chess. Show more
Dominic Lawson interviews the shadow cabinet minister and former junior chess champion. Rachel explains why she would never allow her daughter to beat her at the game. Show more
Dominic Lawson plays the British-born former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, who believes that chess and boxing have much in common. Show more
Dominic Lawson takes on Demis Hassabis. Demis was a child chess prodigy who moved into computer programming, and has just sold his company to Google for £400 million. Show more
Dominic Lawson talks to the women's world chess champion Hou Yifan. Still only 19, Yifan is one of only a handful of women to have become an elite grandmaster. Show more
Dominic Lawson takes on the world's greatest chess player, Magnus Carlsen, and asks if it would not be better for Magnus to put his extraordinary intelligence to another use. Show more
Dominic Lawson takes on Murray Campbell, the brains behind chess computer Deep Blue, which made headlines around the world when it beat former world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Show more
Dominic Lawson takes on one of Britain's leading philanthropists, Sigrid Rausing, who plays chess every day with her husband. Show more
Dominic Lawson takes on the former England footballer Sol Campbell and asks him if his decision to transfer from Tottenham Hotspur to Arsenal was a chess player's move. Show more
Dominic Lawson interviews the snooker star Steve Davis, who dominated the green baize for much of the 1980s. Show more
Dominic Lawson conducts a series of interviews over a game of chess. Show more
Dominic Lawson interviews mega-rich investor Rex Sinquefield, who is ploughing millions of dollars into chess. Show more
Dominic Lawson interviews best-selling military historian Antony Beevor over a game of chess. Show more
Dominic Lawson interviews journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan over a game of chess. Show more