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ChessEuropean Club Cup in Budva: Bayegan Pendik, 2715 Elo and a 65-Point Gap per Board2026-10-21I reopened the round-two results close to midnight, after the lights in the...
ChessTotal Chess and the Unified Rating Proposal: The Headline Exists, the Body Does Not2026-10-20The release ran to less than a page. On 29 August 2026 it was pushed onto che...
ChessThe Elephant's Gamble: Andrew Martin and the Risky Revival of a Forgotten Line2026-10-18On a late-September evening I stayed behind at the sports desk in Binh Duong...
ChessScandinavian Defense: The Controversial Time-Saving Weapon in Chess2026-10-15In the context of increasingly fierce top-level chess tournaments and time...
9...a5 against the Bayonet: a strategic King's Indian antidote and the wrong name on the coverThe cover reads: "A farewell triumph: Capablanca wins gold in Buenos Aires...
The 60-Minute Najdorf Patch: The 'No Original DVD Needed' Promise and the Grey Gap in Collective MemoryWhen I watched the introduction of a new opening product by Daniel King, what...
European Club Cup 2026: Three Co-Leaders and the Decisive Game on Board FourBoard four sits at the back row of the hall, beside the fire exit, where the...
FIDE and FRITZ 20: When a False Headline Becomes a Sales Tool for Chess SoftwareIn the final week of August 2026, an article circulated across regional Asian...
FRITZ 20 and the Trust Gap in Chess: When Data No Longer Sides with the ReaderThere is a moment in the chess world I remember clearly. In 2026, in Nizhny...
FIDE's President Is Arkady Dvorkovich: Lessons From a Chess Software Promo That Borrowed AuthorityOn a Saturday evening, in a small chess club on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, ...
European Club Cup in Budva: Bayegan Pendik, 2715 Elo and a 65-Point Gap per BoardI reopened the round-two results close to midnight, after the lights in the...
Four Players, Three Formats, One Rating System Nobody Has Seen: Total Chess Opens in BudapestOn 29 August 2026, a short release moved through international chess channels...
Total Chess and the Unified Rating Proposal: The Headline Exists, the Body Does NotThe release ran to less than a page. On 29 August 2026 it was pushed onto che...
The Elephant's Gamble: Andrew Martin and the Risky Revival of a Forgotten LineOn a late-September evening I stayed behind at the sports desk in Binh Duong...
The Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027 and the Structural Illusion: When a Chess Game Is Sold by Its EnvelopeIn the past three years I have made it a habit to open three tabs whenever I...
Atyrau Masters: Top Two Seeds Fall, and the Data Nobody ReadOn Monday evening, when I opened the newsroom's internal bulletin, the first...
Atyrau Masters: The Top Two Seeds Fall and the Content Machine Selling Chess as a ProductIn the inbox of a woman who has covered chess for forty-four years, some...
Scandinavian Defense: The Controversial Time-Saving Weapon in ChessIn the context of increasingly fierce top-level chess tournaments and time...
The d5 Move and a Bundesliga Dispute: The Elephant Gambit Under the SpotlightSome moves are not born to win. They are born to confuse. And on one evening ...
The Elephant Gambit in the Bundesliga: A Move d5, a 60-Minute Course, and a Data VacuumOn a chessboard, some moves are recorded by notation, and some are recorded b...
The Silent Game: When Carlsen Plants a Seed for Club PlayersOn a summer evening in Saigon, I sat alone in a small studio, watching and...
A Short Game at the UzChess Cup: Jacobson, Vakhidov and a Contradiction Nobody NamedSome games end so quickly that the viewer is left wondering what they missed....
The Sideline Move 9...a5 and the FIDE Presidency That Was Called by the Wrong NameThe October sky over Saint Petersburg had turned cold. The first snow of the...
The 60-Minute Najdorf Patch: The 'No Original DVD Needed' Promise and the Grey Gap in Collective MemoryWhen I watched the introduction of a new opening product by Daniel King, what...
European Club Cup 2026: Three Co-Leaders and the Decisive Game on Board FourBoard four sits at the back row of the hall, beside the fire exit, where the...
FIDE and FRITZ 20: When a False Headline Becomes a Sales Tool for Chess SoftwareIn the final week of August 2026, an article circulated across regional Asian...
FRITZ 20 and the Trust Gap in Chess: When Data No Longer Sides with the ReaderThere is a moment in the chess world I remember clearly. In 2026, in Nizhny...
FIDE's President Is Arkady Dvorkovich: Lessons From a Chess Software Promo That Borrowed AuthorityOn a Saturday evening, in a small chess club on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, ...
European Club Cup in Budva: Bayegan Pendik, 2715 Elo and a 65-Point Gap per BoardI reopened the round-two results close to midnight, after the lights in the...
Four Players, Three Formats, One Rating System Nobody Has Seen: Total Chess Opens in BudapestOn 29 August 2026, a short release moved through international chess channels...
Total Chess and the Unified Rating Proposal: The Headline Exists, the Body Does NotThe release ran to less than a page. On 29 August 2026 it was pushed onto che...
The Elephant's Gamble: Andrew Martin and the Risky Revival of a Forgotten LineOn a late-September evening I stayed behind at the sports desk in Binh Duong...
The Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027 and the Structural Illusion: When a Chess Game Is Sold by Its EnvelopeIn the past three years I have made it a habit to open three tabs whenever I...
Atyrau Masters: Top Two Seeds Fall, and the Data Nobody ReadOn Monday evening, when I opened the newsroom's internal bulletin, the first...
Atyrau Masters: The Top Two Seeds Fall and the Content Machine Selling Chess as a ProductIn the inbox of a woman who has covered chess for forty-four years, some...
Scandinavian Defense: The Controversial Time-Saving Weapon in ChessIn the context of increasingly fierce top-level chess tournaments and time...
The d5 Move and a Bundesliga Dispute: The Elephant Gambit Under the SpotlightSome moves are not born to win. They are born to confuse. And on one evening ...
The Elephant Gambit in the Bundesliga: A Move d5, a 60-Minute Course, and a Data VacuumOn a chessboard, some moves are recorded by notation, and some are recorded b...
The Silent Game: When Carlsen Plants a Seed for Club PlayersOn a summer evening in Saigon, I sat alone in a small studio, watching and...
A Short Game at the UzChess Cup: Jacobson, Vakhidov and a Contradiction Nobody NamedSome games end so quickly that the viewer is left wondering what they missed....
The Sideline Move 9...a5 and the FIDE Presidency That Was Called by the Wrong NameThe October sky over Saint Petersburg had turned cold. The first snow of the...
