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Clutch Chess Day One: A Silent Scoreboard, Weighted Points and a Headline Selling Software2026-10-29It is eleven at night in the Mymensingh room, a sheet of paper on the table. ...
The Headline Was News, the Body Was an Ad: The Elephant Gambit, Woodward's Upset and the US Championship Ledger2026-10-161.e4.e5 — I stopped when I first read that line. In chess notation, this line...
Women's Event at Samarkand: A One Match-Point Lead, and a Headline That Is Really an Ad Shell2026-09-24I was sitting in my apartment in Boston, and the first thing I noticed in tha...
Sindarov Wins in Nakamura’s Own Line: What Does a Rapid Victory Really Say Before a World Championship?2026-11-06Javokhir Sindarov, playing Black, defeated Hikaru Nakamura in a 10+5 game at...
Before and After Lilov's Six Videos: How Much Does a 1.d4 Sideline Prep Plan Actually Deliver2026-11-03Last week, in a Delhi studio, I opened the 746th installment of ChessBase's...
Sindarov Wins in Nakamura’s Own Line: What Does a Rapid Victory Really Say Before a World Championship?Javokhir Sindarov, playing Black, defeated Hikaru Nakamura in a 10+5 game at...
Before and After Lilov's Six Videos: How Much Does a 1.d4 Sideline Prep Plan Actually DeliverLast week, in a Delhi studio, I opened the 746th installment of ChessBase's...
Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş's Rise: The 2,731 Rating, an Unbeaten Olympiad and Questions of VerificationTurkish chess is celebrating a young talent whose results have quickly become...
A New Black Repertoire in the Shadow of 1.d4 d5: The Market for Anti-System Preparation Among Club PlayersIntroduction: A Training Product and a Competitive Gap The chess world usuall...
Clutch Chess Day One: A Silent Scoreboard, Weighted Points and a Headline Selling SoftwareIt is eleven at night in the Mymensingh room, a sheet of paper on the table. ...
Attack in the Title, Defense in the Body: Auditing the 9...a5 Line of a King's Indian DVDI opened the page looking for a White system. By the third sentence I was...
The 9...a5 Sales Pitch: A King's Indian DVD, Capablanca's 2026, and the Numbers Nobody SuppliedEleven-ten at night, Mumbai. Under the table lamp I opened a file; the headli...
European Club Cup Round Four: The Board-One Wait and the Invisible Arithmetic of the Team SheetThe team sheet for round four was due at seven in the evening. October 20,...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Ten Opening Articles: ChessBase #225 and Our Empty NotebookI read the ChessBase Magazine #225 announcement twice and both times came up...
Carlsen Steps Back From the Five-Hour Board, and the Question Purana Paltan Never Asked"I no longer play five- or six-hour games. So I try to win a bit faster." Two...
The Headline Was News, the Body Was an Ad: The Elephant Gambit, Woodward's Upset and the US Championship Ledger1.e4.e5 — I stopped when I first read that line. In chess notation, this line...
Sixty Minutes of Course, Two Lines of News: The Elephant Gambit and the Headline Economy of the US ChampionshipAt two in the morning in a Mymensingh bedroom I opened a second-hand laptop a...
The Headline That Lies, the Move That Tells the Truth: The Scandinavian Defense and Chess's Quiet CrisisTwo in the morning. In my Delhi flat, under the cold light of a laptop screen...
In Search of the Endgame Weapon: The Secret of an Unfashionable Path in the Italian GameA legend goes that a 51-year-old chess player once told me, 'The most dangero...
ChessBase Magazine #225 in Bent Larsen's Name: Why Paid Chess Periodicals Still SurviveThe headline read — "Learning strategy from Bent Larsen." Before I opened the...
Vincent Keymer, the Scotch Game, and the False Testimony of a HeadlineRead the headline and you think the story is over. “Vincent Keymer: Relaxed,...
India's First Chess Olympiad Gold: 21 Match Points, a 3056 Performance, and Bangladesh's Sixteen-Year GapKeeping my eyes on the third board in Budapest was not easy. Last September,...
Olympiad Gold — The Three Words the Headline DroppedThe same headline reached my screen three times last week: "Vietnam wins ches...
Bodhana in the Headline, the Elephant Gambit in the Body: Sixty Minutes, Thirteen Points, One GapI read the file twice. The first pass stopped at the headline — Bodhana...
Samarkand Round 7: Where the Table Stopped and the Page Got SoldIt was past eleven in Bangalore. The tea had gone cold. The page open on scre...
Before and After Lilov's Six Videos: How Much Does a 1.d4 Sideline Prep Plan Actually DeliverLast week, in a Delhi studio, I opened the 746th installment of ChessBase's...
Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş's Rise: The 2,731 Rating, an Unbeaten Olympiad and Questions of VerificationTurkish chess is celebrating a young talent whose results have quickly become...
A New Black Repertoire in the Shadow of 1.d4 d5: The Market for Anti-System Preparation Among Club PlayersIntroduction: A Training Product and a Competitive Gap The chess world usuall...
Clutch Chess Day One: A Silent Scoreboard, Weighted Points and a Headline Selling SoftwareIt is eleven at night in the Mymensingh room, a sheet of paper on the table. ...
Attack in the Title, Defense in the Body: Auditing the 9...a5 Line of a King's Indian DVDI opened the page looking for a White system. By the third sentence I was...
The 9...a5 Sales Pitch: A King's Indian DVD, Capablanca's 2026, and the Numbers Nobody SuppliedEleven-ten at night, Mumbai. Under the table lamp I opened a file; the headli...
European Club Cup Round Four: The Board-One Wait and the Invisible Arithmetic of the Team SheetThe team sheet for round four was due at seven in the evening. October 20,...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Ten Opening Articles: ChessBase #225 and Our Empty NotebookI read the ChessBase Magazine #225 announcement twice and both times came up...
Carlsen Steps Back From the Five-Hour Board, and the Question Purana Paltan Never Asked"I no longer play five- or six-hour games. So I try to win a bit faster." Two...
The Headline Was News, the Body Was an Ad: The Elephant Gambit, Woodward's Upset and the US Championship Ledger1.e4.e5 — I stopped when I first read that line. In chess notation, this line...
Sixty Minutes of Course, Two Lines of News: The Elephant Gambit and the Headline Economy of the US ChampionshipAt two in the morning in a Mymensingh bedroom I opened a second-hand laptop a...
The Headline That Lies, the Move That Tells the Truth: The Scandinavian Defense and Chess's Quiet CrisisTwo in the morning. In my Delhi flat, under the cold light of a laptop screen...
In Search of the Endgame Weapon: The Secret of an Unfashionable Path in the Italian GameA legend goes that a 51-year-old chess player once told me, 'The most dangero...
ChessBase Magazine #225 in Bent Larsen's Name: Why Paid Chess Periodicals Still SurviveThe headline read — "Learning strategy from Bent Larsen." Before I opened the...
Vincent Keymer, the Scotch Game, and the False Testimony of a HeadlineRead the headline and you think the story is over. “Vincent Keymer: Relaxed,...
India's First Chess Olympiad Gold: 21 Match Points, a 3056 Performance, and Bangladesh's Sixteen-Year GapKeeping my eyes on the third board in Budapest was not easy. Last September,...
Olympiad Gold — The Three Words the Headline DroppedThe same headline reached my screen three times last week: "Vietnam wins ches...
Bodhana in the Headline, the Elephant Gambit in the Body: Sixty Minutes, Thirteen Points, One GapI read the file twice. The first pass stopped at the headline — Bodhana...
Samarkand Round 7: Where the Table Stopped and the Page Got SoldIt was past eleven in Bangalore. The tea had gone cold. The page open on scre...