Chess
King's Indian: The 9...a5 Move and the 'No Memorisation Needed' Promise in the Engine Era
ChessBase Magazine #225: When a Chess Publisher Sells Curation Instead of Discovery
The Scandinavian Defense: A 60-Minute Course and a Misplaced Headline
Atyrau Masters: Two Seeds Fall and the Content Machine Behind a Headline
King's Indian: The 9...a5 Move and the 'No Memorisation Needed' Promise in the Engine EraThe fourth game of Saturday evening at a club on Chunxi Road, Chengdu, ended ...
Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo Win the 2026 European Club Cup: A Title With No Board AttachedBayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo Win the 2026 European Club Cup: A Title With N...
Budva, 108 Teams and the 2715 Threshold: Mapping Club Chess Strength in EuropeBudva, Montenegro, October 19, 2026. The playing hall of the European Club Cu...
ChessBase Magazine #225: When a Chess Publisher Sells Curation Instead of DiscoveryThe release note for ChessBase Magazine #225 landed in my inbox on a Septembe...
A European Club Cup Headline, a Scotch Video Body: Chess Media Is Burning Its Own CredibilityThe headline said Novy Bor and SuperChess remained perfect at the European Cl...
The False FIDE Presidency Headline and the Chess Engine Sold on Borrowed AuthorityAt one in the morning in Chengdu, my tea long cold, I came across a headline...
The Scandinavian in 60 Minutes: Where the Promise Outruns the PositionOctober in Saint Petersburg, and the dark arrives by four in the afternoon. I...
The 5 e5! thrust in the Modern Italian: three replies, one mismatched headline, and the shelf life of a trapOn a Sunday morning, at the third table of a coffee shop on the Han River ban...
The 5.e5 Thrust in the Modern Italian: A Club Weapon and a Sixty-Minute Data GapThe board sits on a scuffed wooden table by the window. The boy is about...
The Benko Gambit and the Lesson of a Chess Product Page That Misread Its Own HeadlineFourteen seconds. That is how long I spent reading the headline three times...
The Scandinavian Defense: A 60-Minute Course and a Misplaced HeadlineAround 9 p.m. on a Saturday in late March, at a coffee shop on Nguyen Dinh...
The 9...a5 Move Against the Bayonet Attack: An Unverified Theoretical ContractThree in the morning in Shenzhen, and the game is still open on my second...
Bayonet Attack and 9...a5: An Unverified Antidote PromiseOn a late evening in 2026, after the newsroom lights had gone out, I reopened...
Atyrau Masters: Two Seeds Fall and the Content Machine Behind a HeadlineAt Atyrau, an oil city on the Ural River in Kazakhstan, the top two seeds fel...
The 6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: When the Chessboard Becomes a Bridge of HopeIn a world where prison walls confine not only the body but also the spirit,...
Behind Bars, 140 Chess Teams and a Story That Never Reaches the ScoreboardNo cheers. No stadium lights sweeping across the stands. Just the ticking of ...
The Elephant Gambit: A Second-Move Thrust Sold as a Secret, and the Price of Data-Free BeliefI opened the piece with a pen and three questions: where is the engine...
Yu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren in Silence: A Victory Buried Inside an AdvertisementIn the news item I reopened on a quiet evening, exactly one line was devoted ...
A Dispute in the Bundesliga: The d5 Move and the Story of an Underrated OpeningOn a chessboard in a Bundesliga playing hall, Black does not develop a piece....
Kostya Kavutskiy Joins ChessBase: Reading an Author Deal in the Chess Course EconomyOpening: A review with no moves on the board In December 2026 I opened...
Game 743: The Man Who Has Retold Chess for Fourteen YearsOn a Wednesday night, I made a cup of black coffee, dragged a plastic chair...
UzChess Cup: Jacobson's Short Game and the Lesson of an Unverified OpeningI sat in front of the screen at two in the morning, rewinding a clip that ran...
One Game, Two Openings: Why the Title and Content of a UzChess Cup Episode Don't MatchThere was a moment in the analysis video of the game between Brandon Jacobson...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague, 27 Miniatures and a Moat Built on NamesThe stack of ChessBase magazines on my desk in Saigon has frayed spines after...
Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo Win the 2026 European Club Cup: A Title With No Board AttachedBayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo Win the 2026 European Club Cup: A Title With N...
Budva, 108 Teams and the 2715 Threshold: Mapping Club Chess Strength in EuropeBudva, Montenegro, October 19, 2026. The playing hall of the European Club Cu...
ChessBase Magazine #225: When a Chess Publisher Sells Curation Instead of DiscoveryThe release note for ChessBase Magazine #225 landed in my inbox on a Septembe...
A European Club Cup Headline, a Scotch Video Body: Chess Media Is Burning Its Own CredibilityThe headline said Novy Bor and SuperChess remained perfect at the European Cl...
The False FIDE Presidency Headline and the Chess Engine Sold on Borrowed AuthorityAt one in the morning in Chengdu, my tea long cold, I came across a headline...
The Scandinavian in 60 Minutes: Where the Promise Outruns the PositionOctober in Saint Petersburg, and the dark arrives by four in the afternoon. I...
The 5 e5! thrust in the Modern Italian: three replies, one mismatched headline, and the shelf life of a trapOn a Sunday morning, at the third table of a coffee shop on the Han River ban...
The 5.e5 Thrust in the Modern Italian: A Club Weapon and a Sixty-Minute Data GapThe board sits on a scuffed wooden table by the window. The boy is about...
The Benko Gambit and the Lesson of a Chess Product Page That Misread Its Own HeadlineFourteen seconds. That is how long I spent reading the headline three times...
The Scandinavian Defense: A 60-Minute Course and a Misplaced HeadlineAround 9 p.m. on a Saturday in late March, at a coffee shop on Nguyen Dinh...
The 9...a5 Move Against the Bayonet Attack: An Unverified Theoretical ContractThree in the morning in Shenzhen, and the game is still open on my second...
Bayonet Attack and 9...a5: An Unverified Antidote PromiseOn a late evening in 2026, after the newsroom lights had gone out, I reopened...
Atyrau Masters: Two Seeds Fall and the Content Machine Behind a HeadlineAt Atyrau, an oil city on the Ural River in Kazakhstan, the top two seeds fel...
The 6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: When the Chessboard Becomes a Bridge of HopeIn a world where prison walls confine not only the body but also the spirit,...
Behind Bars, 140 Chess Teams and a Story That Never Reaches the ScoreboardNo cheers. No stadium lights sweeping across the stands. Just the ticking of ...
The Elephant Gambit: A Second-Move Thrust Sold as a Secret, and the Price of Data-Free BeliefI opened the piece with a pen and three questions: where is the engine...
Yu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren in Silence: A Victory Buried Inside an AdvertisementIn the news item I reopened on a quiet evening, exactly one line was devoted ...
A Dispute in the Bundesliga: The d5 Move and the Story of an Underrated OpeningOn a chessboard in a Bundesliga playing hall, Black does not develop a piece....
Kostya Kavutskiy Joins ChessBase: Reading an Author Deal in the Chess Course EconomyOpening: A review with no moves on the board In December 2026 I opened...
Game 743: The Man Who Has Retold Chess for Fourteen YearsOn a Wednesday night, I made a cup of black coffee, dragged a plastic chair...
UzChess Cup: Jacobson's Short Game and the Lesson of an Unverified OpeningI sat in front of the screen at two in the morning, rewinding a clip that ran...
One Game, Two Openings: Why the Title and Content of a UzChess Cup Episode Don't MatchThere was a moment in the analysis video of the game between Brandon Jacobson...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague, 27 Miniatures and a Moat Built on NamesThe stack of ChessBase magazines on my desk in Saigon has frayed spines after...