The Game of Kings?
Forget waiting for the World Cup to start to get your fill of juicy tales of off-pitch drama and skullduggery - This story from the Turin Chess Olympiad has all you’ll ever need:
- Drunken debauchery
- A leading England player bar-brawling for the hand of a glamorous femme fatale
- A reprisal attack from the opposing team the next day
- High-level political connections
- England leaving the tournament in disgrace
- Aggrieved team coming through to win the tournament
And all of this was started by a 30-year-old man who still lives with his mother.