I know my price, I am worth no worse a place,” the villainous Iago declares in Shakespeare’s play. Clearly, the actor playing ...

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When he conceded defeat, Spassky stood up and applauded his opponent. It was a moment that completely went against ... Put me in the same cell with Bobby Fischer. And give us a chess set,” he wrote.

Starting to work in the summer holidays, when he was 13, Marshall’s first job was to break up the cardboard boxes that Chess records would arrive in. “All my summers were there,” he says.