Chess
Samarkand R7, 9...a5 and a DVD: Accounting for the Gap Between Headline and Board
Two Empty Boards on Yom Kippur: The Question Israel's Olympiad Forfeit Leaves Behind
Fifteen-Year-Old Hussain Besou Tops the Bavarian Championship: A Postmortem Beneath the Prodigy Filter and the Coaching-Content Shadow
The Trompowsky Trap: How Black Wins at Club Level Without Anyone Noticing
Fifteen-Year-Old Hussain Besou Tops the Bavarian Championship: A Postmortem Beneath the Prodigy Filter and the Coaching-Content ShadowThe day the scoreboard of the Bavarian Championship placed Hussain Besou's na...
The Trompowsky Trap: How Black Wins at Club Level Without Anyone NoticingAt a club tournament in Dhaka last month, I noticed something. I was standing...
The 'Antidote' to the King's Indian Bayonet Attack, 9...a5: A New Training Product Whose Claims Remain UnverifiedA new training product has stirred discussion in the chess opening-theory...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero Ratings: The Empty Square in Prison Chess77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero Ratings: The Empty Square in Prison Chess...
The Interview With Zero Numbers: Carlsen's Faster Wins and Budapest's Eleven-Day LedgerI opened the interview that Spain's AS newspaper published on 21 October the...
Karsten Müller: The Master of Chess Endgames, Whose Knowledge Now Resembles Smart Contracts in the Blockchain EraWhen I first heard the name Karsten Müller, I remembered the 2026 Premier...
No Results, Only Six Videos: The Anti-1.d4 Course Behind a US Championships HeadlineSeven in the morning in Mumbai. The tea has gone cold. I scroll the feed and...
From Prague 2026 to Your Repertoire: The Ledger of ChessBase Magazine #225On my laptop screen was an open promotional page for ChessBase Magazine. No...
From Dusk till Dawn: Chess's Training Market, 27 Miniatures and a Country's Unfinished MoveA PDF booklet is open on my laptop, in a Delhi flat, in the late light of...
Prague's Pages, Samarkand's Absence: The Analysis Market of ChessBase Magazine #225The steel cupboard in Purana Paltan still opens with the same squeak. Inside,...
A One-Match-Point Lead, Zero Game Scores: Samarkand's Women's Event Behind an AdvertisementI sat down to reconcile an account. Half past seven in the evening, a flat in...
The 9...a5 'Antidote' Claim: A Data Audit of a King's Indian Bayonet Attack Product PitchI opened the file looking for a score-sheet. The headline was unambiguous:...
The Trompowsky Trap: How Black Wins at Club Level Without Anyone NoticingAt a club tournament in Dhaka last month, I noticed something. I was standing...
The 'Antidote' to the King's Indian Bayonet Attack, 9...a5: A New Training Product Whose Claims Remain UnverifiedA new training product has stirred discussion in the chess opening-theory...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero Ratings: The Empty Square in Prison Chess77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero Ratings: The Empty Square in Prison Chess...
The Interview With Zero Numbers: Carlsen's Faster Wins and Budapest's Eleven-Day LedgerI opened the interview that Spain's AS newspaper published on 21 October the...
Karsten Müller: The Master of Chess Endgames, Whose Knowledge Now Resembles Smart Contracts in the Blockchain EraWhen I first heard the name Karsten Müller, I remembered the 2026 Premier...
No Results, Only Six Videos: The Anti-1.d4 Course Behind a US Championships HeadlineSeven in the morning in Mumbai. The tea has gone cold. I scroll the feed and...
From Prague 2026 to Your Repertoire: The Ledger of ChessBase Magazine #225On my laptop screen was an open promotional page for ChessBase Magazine. No...
From Dusk till Dawn: Chess's Training Market, 27 Miniatures and a Country's Unfinished MoveA PDF booklet is open on my laptop, in a Delhi flat, in the late light of...
Prague's Pages, Samarkand's Absence: The Analysis Market of ChessBase Magazine #225The steel cupboard in Purana Paltan still opens with the same squeak. Inside,...
A One-Match-Point Lead, Zero Game Scores: Samarkand's Women's Event Behind an AdvertisementI sat down to reconcile an account. Half past seven in the evening, a flat in...
The 9...a5 'Antidote' Claim: A Data Audit of a King's Indian Bayonet Attack Product PitchI opened the file looking for a score-sheet. The headline was unambiguous:...