Chess
Atyrau Masters: Top Two Seeds Fall in the Opening Rounds
Uncovering the Scotch Opening: From Obscurity to Stardom Thanks to Kasparov
The Dispute in the Bundesliga: The Elephant Gambit and the Question of Who Really Needs a Forgotten Move
Karsten Müller and the Craft of Keeping the Endgame Alive
Nihal Sarin's Three Moves and the Crack in India's Chess Dynasty
ChessNovy Bor, SuperChess and a Headline With No Chess Game Behind ItI read the headline three times. “European Club Cup: Novy Bor and SuperChess...
ChessBudva 2026: Bayegan Pendik's 2715 Elo and a MOVE Cup Headline With No BodyOn 19 October 2026, the chess industry bulletin that landed in my inbox carri...
ChessDaniel King's 60-Minute Najdorf Patch: Chess Theory and a Race Without a Finish LineSixty Minutes and a Patch “It is not necessary to have seen the original DVD…...
ChessThe FIDE Presidency Does Not Belong to Timur Turlov: Anatomy of a False Headline and a Fritz 20 PromoOne Caption, One Title Handed Over The photograph shows two men shaking hands...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: Bayegan Pendik, a 2715 average rating and a 115-point gap in BudvaIn Budva the playing hall opens thirty minutes before the round. I read the...
ChessA European Club Cup Headline, a Magazine Sales Page Inside: Reading the Structure of the ChessBase Magazine #225 PromotionThe promotion opens with the European Club Cup. I read the first sentence,...
Chess9...a5 in the King's Indian: Where the Real Value of an Opening DVD Actually SitsOn the back cover of an opening DVD, one line is set in bolder type than the...
ChessThe Elephant's Gamble: When an Opening Risky Bet Is Sold as a Winning WeaponAt the third round of that summer's team event, I sat in the seventh row, nex...
ChessAtyrau Masters: Top Two Seeds Fall in the Opening RoundsAtyrau is an oil city on the shore of the Caspian Sea, in western Kazakhstan....
ChessUS Championships: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — When a Tournament Report Becomes an Opening-Course PitchIn the round where Woodward took down Caruana, I sat in front of the screen f...
ChessWhen AI Proves Instead of Computes: The 63-Checking-Move Problem and the Trap of the Number 364On October 13, a short technical announcement appeared across specialist...
Chess63 Checks and the Double Agent Machine: AI Proves a 58-Year Limit in Combinatorial ChessIn the summer of 2026, in Da Nang, I sat frame-by-frame through slow-motion...
ChessA 58-Year-Old Chess Problem: 63 Checking Moves Proven, 364 Still OpenThe sound of a chess piece set down on a wooden board — a soft click — is wha...
ChessUncovering the Scotch Opening: From Obscurity to Stardom Thanks to KasparovIn the world of top-level chess, there are openings that seem forgotten, but ...
ChessThe Dispute in the Bundesliga: The Elephant Gambit and the Question of Who Really Needs a Forgotten MoveOn a March evening, as the Bundesliga entered its closing stretch, I sat befo...
ChessKarsten Müller and the Craft of Keeping the Endgame AliveAt every chess tournament there comes a moment when the stands begin to thin....
ChessBorrowed Authority: How Chess Prices an Endgame ExpertMagnus Carlsen read a book on endgames, said it improved his understanding of...
ChessAge 11, Board One, 6/7 and a 2504 Performance: Reading Bodhana Sivanandan With Data, Not EmotionOn board one of England's women's team at the Samarkand 2026 Chess Olympiad, ...
ChessWhen a Chess Analysis Pipeline Returns an Empty Result: A Warning About Data IntegrityI opened the analysis file on a Tuesday morning, as Da Nang was still wrapped...
ChessFRITZ 20 and the Chess Training Question: When the Machine Sits in the Teacher's ChairA November night in Moscow, the temperature outside below minus ten. In a sma...
ChessNihal Sarin's Three Moves and the Crack in India's Chess DynastyThe clock on board three stopped at thirty minutes. The evaluation on the...
ChessThe Scotch Is No Longer a Harmless Move: Kasparov's 2026 Shock and Mikhalchishin's Practical Guide to Neutralizing ItI remember sitting in a small café by the Han River when a young coach asked...
ChessThe Empty Spreadsheet and the Verification Discipline of Elite ChessOn the night of December 12, 2026, in Singapore, the fourteenth game of the...
ChessThe 60-Minute Scandinavian Defense and the Branding Trap Named Bent LarsenI opened the video file as if I had just received a gift from an old friend....
ChessKing's Indian: The 9...a5 Antidote and the Trust Trap Around the Bayonet AttackThere is a habit I have kept through eighteen years of analysis: whenever a n...
ChessSamarkand, Nine 4-0 Results, and the Silence the Scoreboard HidesI opened the recording of the opening round of the women's team event in...
