Chess
The Hour of the Seconds: Why the Unfamous Move Is the Real Weapon2026-10-19There is a quiet paradox buried in how we buy weapons. The buyer is not...
Opening-Label Contradiction in the Jacobson - Vakhidov Game at the UzChess Cup and the Limits of a Miniature2026-10-10Eleven at night in Shanghai. I reopened the file on the game between Brandon...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Inside a Paid Training Package of 27 Miniatures and 10 Opening Articles2026-10-03I opened ChessBase Magazine issue 225 at 2 a.m. Chengdu time, right after...
Super Knight and 60 Minutes Saved: The Real Value of the Scandinavian Defense2026-10-02On a Saturday evening, in a small chess club on Nguyen Thien Thuat Street in...
ChessDvorkovich remains FIDE President, and FRITZ 20 still has no verifiable dataThe hometown board has no grandstand, but every time a piece is pushed forwar...
ChessModern Italian: The e5 Thrust, Three Critical Replies and a Data GapMove five. The white pawn leaves e4, steps to e5, and the board contracts...
ChessThe Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: A Comfortable Opening, an Uncomfortable PromiseOn a Thursday evening, in a small apartment in Binh Duong, I opened a 60-minu...
ChessThe Hour of the Seconds: Why the Unfamous Move Is the Real WeaponThere is a quiet paradox buried in how we buy weapons. The buyer is not...
ChessThe Elephant's Gamble: When the Elephant Gambit Enters the Transfer Market of IdeasOn the chessboard, Black's 2...d5 after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 is a pawn sacrifice on...
Chess9...a5 against the Bayonet Attack: the King's Indian's narrow path and the price of understandingWhite pushes the pawn to b4 on move nine. For most King's Indian players at...
ChessWoodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap: The Story Beneath the Headline at the US Chess ChampionshipsIn the last three games I have followed on the national women's chess circuit...
ChessAtyrau Masters and How the Chess Industry Packages an Upset into a ProductWhen the top two seeds of the Atyrau Masters fell in the opening rounds, the...
ChessUS Chess Championship: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and the Void Behind a Headline1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5!? — The Opening Moment 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5!? — four moves, an...
Chess6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners Kicks Off with 140 TeamsThere is a paradox at the very center of this tournament: its scale is...
ChessBodhana in the Bundesliga: The 2026/87 Late-Arrival Dispute and the Lesson About RulesWhen the seventeen-year-old prodigy didn't yet know he was about to become a...
ChessThe Scotch Opening and the “No Need to Panic” Promise: An Evidence Gap in a Chess LessonA chess instructional video appeared with a headline tied to the Munich 2026...
ChessChessBase Adds a New Author: Kostya Kavutskiy and the Battle for Chess Instructional ContentOn my laptop screen in a small apartment in Chengdu, I open Kostya Kavutskiy'...
ChessOpening-Label Contradiction in the Jacobson - Vakhidov Game at the UzChess Cup and the Limits of a MiniatureEleven at night in Shanghai. I reopened the file on the game between Brandon...
ChessAfter 1.d4 d5: When White Rejects Theory and Black Faces the PuzzleOn an October evening in 2026, at a small chess club on Nguyễn Thiện Thuật...
ChessBodhana Sivanandan, 11, and a 2504 Performance on Board One at the Samarkand 2026 Chess OlympiadAt Samarkand, the board one of England's women's team is an 11-year-old girl....
ChessYağız Kaan Erdoğmuş: 8/10 Unbeaten at the 2026 Chess Olympiad and the Numbers Awaiting VerificationIn the short press release issued by the Turkish Chess Federation, one gap ma...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: Inside a Paid Training Package of 27 Miniatures and 10 Opening ArticlesI opened ChessBase Magazine issue 225 at 2 a.m. Chengdu time, right after...
ChessErdoğmuş Goes Undefeated 8/10 at the 2026 Chess Olympiad: 2,731 ELO and the Data Still Left OpenI remember the evening I sat alone in my analysis room in Nha Trang, reopenin...
ChessSuper Knight and 60 Minutes Saved: The Real Value of the Scandinavian DefenseOn a Saturday evening, in a small chess club on Nguyen Thien Thuat Street in...
