Chess
Modern Italian 5.e5: A Sharp Club Line and the Data Gap Behind a 60-Minute Video2026-10-20In my archive in Mumbai, in folders named by year, there is a photograph of a...
Total Chess Opens Budapest Pilot: Three Formats, Four Players, One Unwritten Rating System2026-10-20On 29 August 2026, a short release issued under the name Total Chess placed o...
US Chess Championship: Wesley So and Awonder Liang Stay Perfect in the Early Rounds2026-10-12In the latest round of the US Chess Championship, the scoreboard carries two...
Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo Win the 2026 European Club Cup: When the Headline Outruns the DataChessBase ran the story under a tidy headline: Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo...
Carlsen on AI, Age 35, and the Twentyfold Gap Between a Title and Its PrizeIn an interview with AS dated 21 October, Magnus Carlsen said something that...
A headline about a FIDE president who does not exist, and the advertisement hiding behind itOn the evening of August 30, 2026, at 12 minutes past eleven, my phone buzzed...
European Club Cup 2026 in Budva: Bayegan Pendik's 2715 Elo and the 65-point-per-board gap the standings do not tellOn October 19, 2026, in Budva, Montenegro, in a short brief about the Europea...
A False Headline About the FIDE President, a Chess Engine, and the Verification Gap in Chess MediaAt 2:14 a.m. on 30 August 2026, the phone on my desk in Shanghai buzzed three...
Modern Italian 5.e5: A Sharp Club Line and the Data Gap Behind a 60-Minute VideoIn my archive in Mumbai, in folders named by year, there is a photograph of a...
Total Chess Opens Budapest Pilot: Three Formats, Four Players, One Unwritten Rating SystemOn 29 August 2026, a short release issued under the name Total Chess placed o...
Total Chess Launches Budapest Pilot: the Unified Rating Claim Still Has No MethodOn 10 November 2026, four players sit down at the same board in Budapest:...
Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap: Inside a Headline With No DataI opened the report on the US Chess Championship expecting to read about a...
Atyrau Masters and the Quiet Shift of the World ChessboardAtyrau sits at the mouth of the Ural River where it meets the Caspian Sea, an...
From 60 to 63 Checking Moves: When AI Enters the World of Chess CompositionNha Trang, October. Rain swept across the window. I was sorting through...
Scandinavian Defense: A Time-Saving Weapon for Club PlayersIn the world of chess, the battle against ever-expanding opening theory has...
Karsten Müller: The Endgame Coach Behind the Champion and a Lesson on Borrowed AuthorityIn a training session in Da Nang, a fourteen-year-old student asked me a...
US Chess Championship: Wesley So and Awonder Liang Stay Perfect in the Early RoundsIn the latest round of the US Chess Championship, the scoreboard carries two...
Jacobson vs. Vakhidov at the UzChess Cup: A Surprise Opening Is Not a Superior OpeningI make a habit of marking every anomalous figure in red before I write. The...
Carlsen on AI, Age 35, and the Twentyfold Gap Between a Title and Its PrizeIn an interview with AS dated 21 October, Magnus Carlsen said something that...
A headline about a FIDE president who does not exist, and the advertisement hiding behind itOn the evening of August 30, 2026, at 12 minutes past eleven, my phone buzzed...
European Club Cup 2026 in Budva: Bayegan Pendik's 2715 Elo and the 65-point-per-board gap the standings do not tellOn October 19, 2026, in Budva, Montenegro, in a short brief about the Europea...
A False Headline About the FIDE President, a Chess Engine, and the Verification Gap in Chess MediaAt 2:14 a.m. on 30 August 2026, the phone on my desk in Shanghai buzzed three...
Modern Italian 5.e5: A Sharp Club Line and the Data Gap Behind a 60-Minute VideoIn my archive in Mumbai, in folders named by year, there is a photograph of a...
Total Chess Opens Budapest Pilot: Three Formats, Four Players, One Unwritten Rating SystemOn 29 August 2026, a short release issued under the name Total Chess placed o...
Total Chess Launches Budapest Pilot: the Unified Rating Claim Still Has No MethodOn 10 November 2026, four players sit down at the same board in Budapest:...
Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap: Inside a Headline With No DataI opened the report on the US Chess Championship expecting to read about a...
Atyrau Masters and the Quiet Shift of the World ChessboardAtyrau sits at the mouth of the Ural River where it meets the Caspian Sea, an...
From 60 to 63 Checking Moves: When AI Enters the World of Chess CompositionNha Trang, October. Rain swept across the window. I was sorting through...
Scandinavian Defense: A Time-Saving Weapon for Club PlayersIn the world of chess, the battle against ever-expanding opening theory has...
Karsten Müller: The Endgame Coach Behind the Champion and a Lesson on Borrowed AuthorityIn a training session in Da Nang, a fourteen-year-old student asked me a...
US Chess Championship: Wesley So and Awonder Liang Stay Perfect in the Early RoundsIn the latest round of the US Chess Championship, the scoreboard carries two...
Jacobson vs. Vakhidov at the UzChess Cup: A Surprise Opening Is Not a Superior OpeningI make a habit of marking every anomalous figure in red before I write. The...
