Chess
Popularity of chess growing in Taranaki
It's a board game that's been played for more than 1500 years but chess is on the rise in Taranaki. Chess is getting so popular in the region the New Plymouth Chess Club has added extra weekly playing… Audio
The Week in Detail: Taxes, kauri, and Peter Ellis
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
The Week in Detail: Taxes, kauri, and Peter Ellis
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.
AudioThe wild world of chess cheating
A cheating scandal has rocked the chess world, but it's just the latest in a long list of sports cheats. Audio
The wild world of chess cheating
A cheating scandal has rocked the chess world, but it's just the latest in a long list of sports cheats.
AudioHow a 16-year-old is changing the world of chess
Teenage grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is just one of an upcoming generation of prodigies pushing India towards the forefront of the chess world.
Defamation suit filed over Queen's Gambit show
Georgian chess icon Nona Gaprindashvili has filed a defamation lawsuit against Netflix, saying she was incorrectly portrayed in the hit series The Queen's Gambit.
How quitting maths can affect teens' brains
Nnew research out of the University of Oxford shows that quitting maths at age 16 may have an adverse effect on brain development. Professor Roi Cohen Kadosh is the senior author of the study. Audio
Why it's never too late to learn something new
Our ability to pick up new skills declines with age, but harnessing a specific mindset can help you learn new tricks as an adult. Tom Vanderbilt joins the show to discuss his new book, Beginners: The… Audio
The streamer at the heart of the esports chess boom
Following in the footsteps of esport stars playing games like Fortnite in front of thousands of adoring fans, full-time chess streamer Alexandra Botez is at the forefront of the revolution that is… Audio
Middle-age misery hits at 47.2
Dartmouth College Professor David Blanchflower has studied data across 132 countries to measure the relationship between wellbeing and age and come up with a U-shaped happiness curve, which reaches… Audio
World Chess Championship: Magnus Carlsen retains title
After 12 drawn games, world number one Norwegian Magnus Carlsen retained the World Chess Championship title with three quickfire tie-breakers.
Bill Forster on Chess
It's been used as a tool for measuring intelligence, as a centrepiece experiment in the nature-versus-nurture debate, and a hobby of great people throughout history. Audio
Karjakin vs Carlsen - World Chess Champs
It's estimated that about one billion people have followed the battle for the World Chess Championship title today. The show-down was between Crimean Sergey Karjakin, and Norwegian Magnus Carlsen. It… Audio
You Call this Art 2014 Part 2
The actor Cliff Curtis, composer Phil Dadson and authors Damien Wilkins and Georgina White discuss the importance of discovery in the process of creating new performances or writing. Justin Gregory is… Audio
Chess and feminism
Grandmaster chess player Nigel Short says women aren't made to play chess. Audio
Check mate for chess cheat using I phone in loo
A former chess grandmaster says Smart phone cheats should face the same harsh penalties as doping Olympic athletes. Audio
Gisborne Eastern Knights chess club
Club Captain Noble Keelan has a very simple method of controlling the boisterousness that erupts at Tuesday night chess club at the Gisborne Eastern Knights - clapping. Yet, who can blame the members… Audio
Science - Computer Science
Prof. Mark Apperley from University of Waikato tweezers out the silicon chips to expose how computers switch us on - artificial intelligence, drones and driverless cars. Audio
World chess champs
John Saunders is the Associate Editor of CHESS Magazine on the world chess champs in Sochi in Russia. Audio
