In Search of the Missing

The Norwegian has brought designer clothes and interactive apps to chess and in six months time he puts his reputation as the world’s best player on the line Wednesday marks the start of a six-month countdown to the World Chess Championship in New York, where Russia’s Sergey Karjakin will try to snatch the title from the champion, Magnus Carlsen from Norway, who has been hogging (sorry, holding) it since 2013. Still, how exciting is it really? You never see defeated chess players dropping to their knees and rending their garments. Chess isn’t like football – not least because it doesn’t have anything like the level of money, glitz or fanbase. [Read more].

• Erica Buist, Magnus Carlsen: the cool grandmaster who cries when he loses to himself, The Guardian, May 11, 2016

Magnus Carlsen takes on Russia’s Sergey Karjakin in six months. Photo: Daniel Sannum Lauten/AFP/Getty Images.