Chess
European Club Cup Before the Final Round: The Title Lies on Boards Three and FourOn 20 October 2026, the round-four pairing sheet of the European Club Cup...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and a Silence That Reads as TrustIn Bengaluru, in the last days of August, people recognise each other by...
Magnus Carlsen and the Human Ceiling: How AI Flattened the Preparation AdvantageMoscow, late October, a small chess club on Tverskaya Street. A...
Daniel King and the 60-Minute Najdorf Patch: Opening Theory Lives Like a SubscriptionEleven at night in Indiranagar, Bangalore. Four people left in the cafe, two...
The Wrong Move on the Media Chessboard: When Chess News Is Manipulated by Fake DataOn August 31, 2026, a headline circulated through Vietnamese chess communitie...
A Dortmund Headline, a Scandinavian Body: The Crack in the Chess Course MarketOn that product page, the boldest line is the name of a tournament: Dortmund...
The Scotch Opening: Kasparov's 2026 Game and the Promise That Black Need Not PanicIn 2026, Garry Kasparov opened with the Scotch against Anatoly Karpov in thei...
Liang Beats Niemann in US Championships Round 1: The Headline and the Data GapAwonder Liang defeated Hans Niemann in Round 1 of the US Chess Championship....
From Dusk till Dawn: ChessBase Magazine #225 and How the Chess Industry Sells KnowledgeA top-level chess game can last six hours. But in Prague, some games just die...
The 5.e5! Push in the Italian Game: A Club Weapon and Its Two-Way BurdenIn a small chess club playing hall tucked deep in an alley off Nguyen Thien...
Bent Larsen on the Cover, Prague 2026 Inside: The Gap Between Promise and Content in a Chess MagazineI opened the package on my desk in Hai Phong on a March afternoon, while the...
The Modern Variation of the Italian Game: Sarana's King Walk and the Sveshnikov LessonIn a game at the Olympiad, Alexei Sarana moved his white king off its startin...
Boards Three and Four: Savitha Shri, the 5/5, and the Paradox of the Samarkand Chess OlympiadOn the sixth night of the 2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, after the Indian...
Pragg beats Giri, Gukesh shines: India beat Netherlands 3-1 at 2026 Chess OlympiadThe fortunes of the Indian men's and women's chess teams at the 2026 Chess...
Samarkand After Round Four: The U.S. Women Lead on 15/16 Board Points, and the Najdorf Keeps Being RewrittenIn Samarkand, when Round 4 closed, the United States women's team board-point...
Samarkand Round 4 and ChessBase Magazine #225: What Really Sits Behind the Eight-Way Tie HeadlineOn a small cafe on Nguyen Du Street in Saigon, there is a chessboard by the...
