Chess
9...a5 and the “few lines” promise: decoding the “antidote” to the Bayonet Attack in the King's Indian Defence
Chess Olympiad: Gukesh on Board 4, Humpy Leads the Women's Team — When Board Order Becomes Tactics
Black's Ninth Move: A Solution or Just Another Branch of the King's Indian Defence?
5.e5 – The 'Knight magic' Move and the Lesson of Belief Without Data
The 5.e5 Move and the Price of a Promise Without Data
When the Board Refuses to Lie: The Truth About an Empty Analysis in the Chess World
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India, 207 Nations and a Format That Forgives NothingThe first game of the Open section at the 2026 Chess Olympiad takes place at...
9...a5 and the “few lines” promise: decoding the “antidote” to the Bayonet Attack in the King's Indian DefenceThe pavement chessboards of Kolkata have no stands, yet every time a knight...
Samarkand Chess Olympiad 2026: India Brings Two Titles to the Largest Board in HistoryAt exactly 11 a.m. on September 16, 2026, inside the Silk Road International...
Chess Olympiad: Gukesh on Board 4, Humpy Leads the Women's Team — When Board Order Becomes TacticsSome decisions in sport look at first like an administrative slip, but on...
Black's Ninth Move: A Solution or Just Another Branch of the King's Indian Defence?A night unlike any other. That is the title of an opening product I opened th...
Samarkand 2026: When a Missing Hotel Room Becomes the First Move"We landed nearly five hours ago. Still no rooms, and absolutely no clarity o...
King's Indian Defence, the Bayonet Attack and the move 9...a5: reading a repertoire promise againA night that was given a name “A night unlike any other.” Someone glued that...
Knight Magic and the 5.e5 Move: A Practical Weapon or an Unverified Promise?In the summer of 2026, in the commentary room in Nizhny Novgorod, I fixed my...
5.e5 – The 'Knight magic' Move and the Lesson of Belief Without DataOn a Thursday evening at the Da Nang chess club, a sixteen-year-old student o...
Divya Deshmukh and Vaishali “Stronger Than When They Won the Olympiad”: A Fine Claim, But Where Is the Data?I remember a late-autumn evening, sitting in front of a muted screen, replayi...
The 5.e5 Move and the Price of a Promise Without DataIn my analysis room in Guangzhou, I keep one iron rule: whenever someone show...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India Defends Both Titles, but the Swiss System Is the Real OpponentOn 22 September 2026, not a single game of chess will be played in Samarkand....
The Knight Without a Home: 5.e5 and the Unverified Promise of the Opening TradeIn the tournament room of a chess club on the fourth floor of an old alley in...
When the Board Refuses to Lie: The Truth About an Empty Analysis in the Chess WorldA thirty-page report was placed in front of me on a January morning in Chiang...
