Chess
5.e5 at Board Four: A Club Weapon and Its Shelf Life
Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, Scores 6/7 and Posts a 2504 Performance Rating on Board One at the Samarkand 2026 Chess Olympiad
The Najdorf and the Cost of Theory Maintenance: Notes on Daniel King's 60-Minute Update
The "Super Knight" and the Forgotten Space Map of the Scandinavian Defense
ChessEuropean Club Cup in Budva: Bayegan Pendik Lead on a 2715 Team Average and the 115-Point-Per-Board QuestionIn Budva, the loudest sound inside the playing hall is a wooden piece being...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: Bayegan's 2715 and the 65-Point Question on Every BoardIn Budva, at the third round of the European Club Cup, in the hotel corridor...
ChessThe Scandinavian Defense and the Price of a Mislabeled HeadlineIn the summer of 2026, in a seaside café in Nha Trang, I watched a man past...
Chess5.e5 at Board Four: A Club Weapon and Its Shelf LifeLast Saturday, in a chess café on Nguyễn Đình Chiểu street in Saigon, I sat...
ChessModern Italian 5.e5!: A Club-Tier Weapon and the Cost of a Self-Contradicting Data PackageNovember 2026, board four of a small chess club on Malaya Bronnaya Street,...
ChessThe Scotch Opening: From a Dismissed Move to a Standard After 2026On a winter evening in Hanoi, I reopened the footage of the 2026 World Chess...
ChessThe Scotch Opening: When a Dismissed Move Became a Standard Thanks to KasparovIn 2026, in London, Garry Kasparov played 3.d4 against Anatoly Karpov in the...
ChessLiang Beats Niemann in US Championships Round One: The Empty Information MapI started a stopwatch the moment I read the headline. Awonder Liang beat Hans...
ChessLiang Beats Niemann: The Silent Board and the Noisy NameThe headline sat neatly in its box, bold type, not one exclamation mark too...
ChessBodhana Sivanandan, 11, Scores 6/7 and Posts a 2504 Performance Rating on Board One at the Samarkand 2026 Chess OlympiadSamarkand, September 24, 2026 — As the Samarkand 2026 Chess Olympiad enters i...
ChessChessBase Magazine No. 225: The Bent Larsen Promise and the Real Structure of a Training ProductAt ten in the evening in Chengdu, I opened the download package of ChessBase...
ChessFive Najdorf Crossroads and Daniel King's Sixty-Minute UpdateIn the tournament hall of an amateur chess event in Hai Phong, I once sat...
ChessThe 60-Minute Najdorf: How Chess Theory Is Sold as a SubscriptionI opened the data file on a morning in early August. The headline read: "Main...
ChessThe Najdorf and the Cost of Theory Maintenance: Notes on Daniel King's 60-Minute UpdateSaturday morning, the last table of a chess cafe on Nguyen Dinh Chieu Street,...
ChessThe "Super Knight" and the Forgotten Space Map of the Scandinavian DefenseIn the autumn of 2026, I sat in a small café in Chiang Mai, rewinding a Magnu...
Chess"Super Knight?": The Scandinavian Defense and the Shortcut for Time-Pressed Chess PlayersOne afternoon in 2026, when every chess tournament in the world had been...
ChessThe 5.e5 Scotch Gambit Move: A Practical Weapon That Data Has Never Signed Off OnOPENING: A POSITION THAT KNOCKED AT 3 A.M. There is a position I have seen at...
ChessThe Fourteen Seconds Before Japan's Corner: Vietnam's Spatial Map in the 2-3 Comeback Loss at the Asian CupFourteen seconds. From the moment the referee blew the whistle for Japan's...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: Bayegan's 2715 and the 65-Point Question on Every BoardIn Budva, at the third round of the European Club Cup, in the hotel corridor...
ChessThe Scandinavian Defense and the Price of a Mislabeled HeadlineIn the summer of 2026, in a seaside café in Nha Trang, I watched a man past...
Chess5.e5 at Board Four: A Club Weapon and Its Shelf LifeLast Saturday, in a chess café on Nguyễn Đình Chiểu street in Saigon, I sat...
ChessModern Italian 5.e5!: A Club-Tier Weapon and the Cost of a Self-Contradicting Data PackageNovember 2026, board four of a small chess club on Malaya Bronnaya Street,...
ChessThe Scotch Opening: From a Dismissed Move to a Standard After 2026On a winter evening in Hanoi, I reopened the footage of the 2026 World Chess...
ChessThe Scotch Opening: When a Dismissed Move Became a Standard Thanks to KasparovIn 2026, in London, Garry Kasparov played 3.d4 against Anatoly Karpov in the...
ChessLiang Beats Niemann in US Championships Round One: The Empty Information MapI started a stopwatch the moment I read the headline. Awonder Liang beat Hans...
ChessLiang Beats Niemann: The Silent Board and the Noisy NameThe headline sat neatly in its box, bold type, not one exclamation mark too...
ChessBodhana Sivanandan, 11, Scores 6/7 and Posts a 2504 Performance Rating on Board One at the Samarkand 2026 Chess OlympiadSamarkand, September 24, 2026 — As the Samarkand 2026 Chess Olympiad enters i...
ChessChessBase Magazine No. 225: The Bent Larsen Promise and the Real Structure of a Training ProductAt ten in the evening in Chengdu, I opened the download package of ChessBase...
ChessFive Najdorf Crossroads and Daniel King's Sixty-Minute UpdateIn the tournament hall of an amateur chess event in Hai Phong, I once sat...
ChessThe 60-Minute Najdorf: How Chess Theory Is Sold as a SubscriptionI opened the data file on a morning in early August. The headline read: "Main...
ChessThe Najdorf and the Cost of Theory Maintenance: Notes on Daniel King's 60-Minute UpdateSaturday morning, the last table of a chess cafe on Nguyen Dinh Chieu Street,...
ChessThe "Super Knight" and the Forgotten Space Map of the Scandinavian DefenseIn the autumn of 2026, I sat in a small café in Chiang Mai, rewinding a Magnu...
Chess"Super Knight?": The Scandinavian Defense and the Shortcut for Time-Pressed Chess PlayersOne afternoon in 2026, when every chess tournament in the world had been...
ChessThe 5.e5 Scotch Gambit Move: A Practical Weapon That Data Has Never Signed Off OnOPENING: A POSITION THAT KNOCKED AT 3 A.M. There is a position I have seen at...
ChessThe Fourteen Seconds Before Japan's Corner: Vietnam's Spatial Map in the 2-3 Comeback Loss at the Asian CupFourteen seconds. From the moment the referee blew the whistle for Japan's...
