Chess
The 9...a5 Move and the Price of Surprise in the King's Indian
Atyrau Masters: The Top Two Seeds Fall, and the 3 A.M. Knock of a Content Machine
The Scandinavian Defense: A Time-Saving Weapon for Club Players in the Era of Theory Explosion
11-Year-Old Chess Prodigy Bodhana Sivanandan Stuns at the Samarkand 2026 Olympiad
ChessBase Magazine 225: Prague 2026 Becomes a Textbook, While Bent Larsen Stays on the Cover
The Ninth Move 9...a5 and the Strategic Silence at the Heart of the Bayonet Storm
Clutch Chess Saint Louis: When the Headline Sells an Event and the Body Sells a CourseFour names. One city. Not a single game. The headline names Clutch Chess in...
Clutch Chess Saint Louis and a Chess Course: When a News Headline Does Not Match the StoryA headline lands in front of a chess reader: Clutch Chess in Saint Louis, wit...
Elephant Gambit and the Labelling Error Inside a 60-Minute Opening VideoThe analysis room of the chess club in Da Nang holds nothing but a board, a...
Rachel Li Wins US Women's Championship: One Headline, Two Different SubjectsI opened the page at 11 p.m. Moscow time, after logging the 27th data column...
From Novy Bor to the Scotch: when chess headlines and chess bodies tell two different storiesFrom Novy Bor to the Scotch: when chess headlines and chess bodies tell two...
A False FIDE Presidency Headline and the FRITZ 20 Promo: Chess Media's Missing Verification RitualAt 1:12 a.m. on August 31, 2026, a reader in Vung Tau sent me a link with thr...
Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye triumph at NATO Chess Championship: When the Headline Misleads the ContentIn the chess media world, a paradox has persisted for decades: article...
European Club Cup in Budva: One 2715-Rated Team, Four Chasers and a 400-Point GapOn the standings board in Budva after two rounds, twenty-five teams sit level...
European Club Cup in Budva: Bayegan's 2715 Elo and why a draw counts as a defeatBudva, round three. The open section of the European Club Cup has 25 teams...
The 9...a5 Move and the Price of Surprise in the King's IndianThat Thursday evening, at a small chess club on Nguyen Chi Thanh street in Da...
Inside the 9...a5 pitch: King's Indian Defense and the war between memory and understandingThere was a March evening at a chess club on the second floor of the old...
9...a5 against the Bayonet: the King's Indian's low-theory detour and the price of understandingThe game took place at a small chess club on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in Da...
9...a5 in the King's Indian Defense: A Low-Theory Antidote and the Gaps in the DataA disc, a move, and a promise printed on the cover October in Saint Petersbur...
Atyrau Masters: The Top Two Seeds Fall, and the 3 A.M. Knock of a Content MachineOPENING: A DOOR LEFT AJAR IN ATYRAU I sat in front of the screen at three in...
The Scotch Opening: Kasparov, 2026, and the Unsolved Problem for BlackIn a small club at the end of an alley in Bangalore, I spent an afternoon...
The Scotch Opening Revived by Kasparov, and the Race to Teach How to Counter ItIn the summer of 2026, across two chessboards set up in New York and then Lyo...
The Scandinavian Defense: A Time-Saving Weapon for Club Players in the Era of Theory ExplosionThree in the morning. I'm still sitting in front of the screen, replaying a...
A Dispute in the Bundesliga: The Elephant Gambit and the Story of Overlooked OpeningsThe second move for Black in that game was not a defensive move. A pawn...
The 5.e5 Thrust and the Strange Comforts of Superstition at the ChessboardOn an evening in October 2026, at a small chess club in Da Nang, I watched a...
UzChess Cup: Jacobson, Vakhidov and a Title That Misled the BoardI opened the latest episode of the 'Fast and Furious' series on a late-June...
UzChess Cup: the short Jacobson–Vakhidov game, a theory-avoidance opening and a mislabelled headlineOn June 25, 2026, a short promotional blurb about a game between Brandon...
11-Year-Old Chess Prodigy Bodhana Sivanandan Stuns at the Samarkand 2026 OlympiadAt the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand 2026, England's women's team is witnessing...