Chess
Budva 2026: Bayegan Pendik at 2715, Four Teams Above 2600, and the Other 103
The 60-Minute Patch for the Najdorf: Daniel King and the Quiet Economy of Chess Theory
Daniel King and the Najdorf Update: When Chess Theory Forces Memory to Be Rewritten
European Club Cup: Bayegan Pendik, 2715 Elo and a Race Already Priced
The European Club Cup and a Lesson from a Chess Magazine: When the Data Isn't on the Board
Woodward Beats Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap: The Paradox of a Headline Standing on Empty Data
European Club Cup 2026 Enters the Final Round: Three Co-Leaders and a Standings Table Still MissingOn the round-four pairing sheet, two names sit on the same line at board one:...
Rachel Li Won the US Women's Championship — and the Next 60 Minutes Was a Scandinavian Defense Video“Rachel Li stunningly wins US Women's Championship.” I read that line three...
ChessBase Magazine 225: Twenty-Seven Miniatures and an Industry Counting Its PagesA Wednesday evening, in the club room on the second floor of an old apartment...
Carlsen, AI and a 20-fold gap: the chess crown is being repricedOn October 21, the Spanish newspaper AS published a long conversation with...
Budva 2026: Bayegan Pendik at 2715, Four Teams Above 2600, and the Other 103Inside the playing hall of the European Club Cup in Budva, board five is wher...
The European Club Cup, a 60-minute Scotch video, and the data gap in betweenIn a corner of my desk in Bangalore sits a saved file I have kept for a long...
The 60-Minute Patch for the Najdorf: Daniel King and the Quiet Economy of Chess TheoryThe 60-Minute Patch for the Najdorf: Daniel King and the Quiet Economy of Che...
Daniel King and the Najdorf Update: When Chess Theory Forces Memory to Be RewrittenIn a 60-minute video, there is a silence that lasts exactly three seconds...
European Club Cup: Bayegan Pendik, 2715 Elo and a Race Already PricedBudva, the morning before round three. Outside the hotel hall, the Adriatic...
9...a5: The Promise and the Gap Inside a King's Indian Opening DVDThere is no author's name on the cover. No release date, no product ID, no...
The European Club Cup and a Lesson from a Chess Magazine: When the Data Isn't on the BoardIn the commentary booth of a chess tournament in Chengdu, I opened a news pag...
The First Move That Can Never Be Wrong: Why the Door Into the Benko Gambit Has ClosedThere was a night in 2026, live on air from Moscow, when I said something I h...
The Silent Move: When the Benko Gambit Becomes a Shield for the Underestimated Chess PlayerThere is a moment in a chess game when you stop hearing the pieces touch the...
The 9...a5 Move in the King's Indian: A 'Low-Theory' Promise Meets the Bayonet AttackA small club off Brigade Road in Bengaluru, a game frozen at move nine. White...
US Chess Championship: Woodward Beats Caruana and the Gap Between Headline and BoardThere is a moment I call the "gap before the move" — not the move already...
Atyrau Masters: The Seed Upset and the Content Machine Behind the Chess WorldI read that headline on a morning in Da Nang, when the screen still carried s...
Woodward Beats Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap: The Paradox of a Headline Standing on Empty DataIn Chengdu, whenever a chess headline surfaces, I have a habit of clicking...
The Scotch Opening: When Kasparov Awakened a Move People Had Stopped Believing InOn a late October evening, I stayed behind at a small chess club on Nguyễn Đì...
The Silent Clock: The 2026/87 Chess Bundesliga Season and the Game That Was Never PlayedOPENING In the archives of the German Chess Bundesliga, I found a note I have...
Pin and win: Karsten Müller and the Endgame Legacy of a Veteran GrandmasterA knight pinned in front of the king, standing still like a statue, and an...
