Dominic Lawson is best known as a former newspaper editor and now weekly leader page columnist for the Sunday Times and Daily Mail. But chess is his passion, as he demonstrated with several series as the presenter of Across the Board for BBC Radio 4, in which he simultaneously interviewed and played against such giants of the game as Magnus Carlsen, Garry Kasparov, and the world's strongest woman player, Hou Yifan. Since 2014 he has been the elected president of the English Chess Federation.
