“Chess is like business. I mean it is very important, because it is strategic thinking. You are calculating all your moves. You know what is very likely (to occur).” – Russian billionaire businessman Andrey Guryev, during an interview with A J Steigman, headlined “The Business of Chess” and published in the Huffington Post, November 22, 2016.
The previous chess column featured two enhancing diagrams and stimulated a sprinkling of favourable comments from both the erudite cognoscenti and the amateur man-in-the-street. The statistics of those who demonstrated an interest is minimal when juxtaposed with other popular sports, because chess is a dwindling competitive pastime locally;
