Chess
Capablanca's 8.5/11 and the 9...a5 Sales Blurb: A Mismatched Headline Traced Back to Buenos Aires 20262026-10-27Buenos Aires, August 2026. The eighth Chess Olympiad. On board one for Cuba,...
A Saint Louis Stage, a Bulgarian Coach's Classroom: The Content-Commerce Current Beneath Chess Headlines2026-10-26A chess report crossed my screen last week with a headline that read like a...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Daniel King's Maintenance Package and the Coaching Market's Unaudited Ledger2026-10-25Chennai, November 2026. The Anand–Carlsen world title match was on, and I was...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: The Arithmetic of a Maintenance Update, and the Empty Space Where the Date Should Be2026-10-25In my spiral notebook that evening there was only one figure: sixty divided b...
Capablanca's 8.5/11 and the 9...a5 Sales Blurb: A Mismatched Headline Traced Back to Buenos Aires 2026Buenos Aires, August 2026. The eighth Chess Olympiad. On board one for Cuba,...
A Saint Louis Stage, a Bulgarian Coach's Classroom: The Content-Commerce Current Beneath Chess HeadlinesA chess report crossed my screen last week with a headline that read like a...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Daniel King's Maintenance Package and the Coaching Market's Unaudited LedgerChennai, November 2026. The Anand–Carlsen world title match was on, and I was...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: The Arithmetic of a Maintenance Update, and the Empty Space Where the Date Should BeIn my spiral notebook that evening there was only one figure: sixty divided b...
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, One Update: Auditing Daniel King's Najdorf Repertoire RefreshSixty minutes. Five lines. One English-language download with a bundled...
Seventy-Seven Teams, Five Continents, Zero Names: The Prison-Chess Scoreboard Nobody PrintedOn the afternoon of 13 May 2026 I opened an entry list at my desk in Kolkata...
A 2465 Performance, Seven Rounds and One October Date: Auditing the IM Claim of an 11-Year-OldOn 23 October she scored 5.5/7 on board one — five wins, one draw, one loss....
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague’s 27 Miniatures and the Open Ledger of PreparationThe Prague file in ChessBase Magazine #225 does not open on a game. It opens ...
11 Years, 7 Months, 16 Days: An IM Title, Seven Boards, and the Arithmetic the Headlines Left OutEvening of 23 October. Board one. More chairs in the hall than people in them...
An IM Norm at Eleven: A 2465 Performance, and a Date That Still Needs Verification23 October, final round, black pieces. A gambit line opened the position earl...
The Prison Board: The Missing Data in a 77-Team Continental ChampionshipMay 13–23, 2026. FIDE ran an event with 77 teams from five continents. Open,...
Wesley So beats Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks, wins fourth US Chess Championship title: A geometrical analysisHook: There was no noise in the press box that night. The last pieces had...
A Saint Louis Stage, a Bulgarian Coach's Classroom: The Content-Commerce Current Beneath Chess HeadlinesA chess report crossed my screen last week with a headline that read like a...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Daniel King's Maintenance Package and the Coaching Market's Unaudited LedgerChennai, November 2026. The Anand–Carlsen world title match was on, and I was...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: The Arithmetic of a Maintenance Update, and the Empty Space Where the Date Should BeIn my spiral notebook that evening there was only one figure: sixty divided b...
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, One Update: Auditing Daniel King's Najdorf Repertoire RefreshSixty minutes. Five lines. One English-language download with a bundled...
Seventy-Seven Teams, Five Continents, Zero Names: The Prison-Chess Scoreboard Nobody PrintedOn the afternoon of 13 May 2026 I opened an entry list at my desk in Kolkata...
A 2465 Performance, Seven Rounds and One October Date: Auditing the IM Claim of an 11-Year-OldOn 23 October she scored 5.5/7 on board one — five wins, one draw, one loss....
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague’s 27 Miniatures and the Open Ledger of PreparationThe Prague file in ChessBase Magazine #225 does not open on a game. It opens ...
11 Years, 7 Months, 16 Days: An IM Title, Seven Boards, and the Arithmetic the Headlines Left OutEvening of 23 October. Board one. More chairs in the hall than people in them...
An IM Norm at Eleven: A 2465 Performance, and a Date That Still Needs Verification23 October, final round, black pieces. A gambit line opened the position earl...
The Prison Board: The Missing Data in a 77-Team Continental ChampionshipMay 13–23, 2026. FIDE ran an event with 77 teams from five continents. Open,...
Wesley So beats Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks, wins fourth US Chess Championship title: A geometrical analysisHook: There was no noise in the press box that night. The last pieces had...