Chess
Petroff or Scandinavian: Conflicting Details Raise Questions Over a 60-Minute Chess Opening Course
Xiong vs Liang: Four Defensive Systems Hidden Behind a Game-Analysis Title
The Rise of Indian Chess: How the Balance of Power on the Board Shifted
European Club Cup: The Board-One 'Battle' Is Not the Match; the Quiet Arithmetic Below Is
Move Five: The Square the Video Never ShowsThere are five moves on the board. White's fifth looks almost incidental: the...
Petroff or Scandinavian: Conflicting Details Raise Questions Over a 60-Minute Chess Opening CourseA 60-minute chess opening course promises something that many club players...
Hussain Besou's Bavarian Title Chase at 15: How a Regional Result Became 'Prodigy Frame'When a fifteen-year-old's name joined the leaders on the scoreboard after the...
Xiong vs Liang: Four Defensive Systems Hidden Behind a Game-Analysis TitleThe most important fact in chess promotion is often the one that has been lef...
The Rise of Indian Chess: How the Balance of Power on the Board ShiftedIn September 2026, at the closing of the 45th Chess Olympiad in Budapest, the...
What Was Actually Published Under the Headline ‘FIDE Ratings — October 2026’ Is a Scotch Defence Training AdvertisementAn article published under the headline ‘FIDE Ratings — October 2026’ recentl...
A File From Prague: ChessBase Magazine #225, Twenty-Seven Miniatures, and the Invisible Ledger of Training MaterialSeven in the morning, Penang. Monsoon rain has blurred the window glass, and...
The Page That Had No Ratings: A 2026 Scotch Advertisement Under an October 2026 HeadlineAny chess player opening this page does the same thing first: looks for his o...
European Club Cup: The Board-One 'Battle' Is Not the Match; the Quiet Arithmetic Below IsThe round-four pairing sheet reads SuperChess against Bayegan Pendik. The eye...
Sixty Minutes of a Defence, One Wrong Headline, and the Quiet Ledger of the Coaching MarketA video. Sixty minutes long. Inside it, a defence: 1.e4 d5, 2.exd5 Qxd5 — the...
One Rating Is Not One Authority: Budapest's Tri-Format Pilot and Total Chess's Unfinished LedgerSeventy-three days. The announcement surfaced on 29 August 2026; the first mo...
The Anti-Scotch Repertoire, Kasparov's Shadow, and a Headline's False PromiseA headline promised young British prodigies. What emerged inside the page was...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: The Headline Gap and the LedgerA FIDE General Assembly has reportedly adopted a resolution on shorter time...
The Endgame Accountant: Karsten Müller, Hamburg Club Economics, and Dhaka's Empty HallMy Chennai notebook is still open on the desk — the 44th Chess Olympiad of...
One Headline, Another Body: The Anatomy of an Anti-1.d4 Course Sale Behind the US ChampionshipsOne Headline, Another Body: The Anatomy of an Anti-1.d4 Course Sale Behind th...
The "Antidote" Claim of 9...a5 and a Mismatched Headline: The Evidence Ledger of a King's Indian DVD"Computers often do not know how to handle these positions." That exact...
Tournament in the Headline, Course in the Body: Chess Theory Inflation and the Market for ShortcutsLast week I opened a page. The headline was a tournament's: “Vlastimil Hort...
Petroff or Scandinavian: Conflicting Details Raise Questions Over a 60-Minute Chess Opening CourseA 60-minute chess opening course promises something that many club players...
Hussain Besou's Bavarian Title Chase at 15: How a Regional Result Became 'Prodigy Frame'When a fifteen-year-old's name joined the leaders on the scoreboard after the...
Xiong vs Liang: Four Defensive Systems Hidden Behind a Game-Analysis TitleThe most important fact in chess promotion is often the one that has been lef...
The Rise of Indian Chess: How the Balance of Power on the Board ShiftedIn September 2026, at the closing of the 45th Chess Olympiad in Budapest, the...
What Was Actually Published Under the Headline ‘FIDE Ratings — October 2026’ Is a Scotch Defence Training AdvertisementAn article published under the headline ‘FIDE Ratings — October 2026’ recentl...
A File From Prague: ChessBase Magazine #225, Twenty-Seven Miniatures, and the Invisible Ledger of Training MaterialSeven in the morning, Penang. Monsoon rain has blurred the window glass, and...
The Page That Had No Ratings: A 2026 Scotch Advertisement Under an October 2026 HeadlineAny chess player opening this page does the same thing first: looks for his o...
European Club Cup: The Board-One 'Battle' Is Not the Match; the Quiet Arithmetic Below IsThe round-four pairing sheet reads SuperChess against Bayegan Pendik. The eye...
Sixty Minutes of a Defence, One Wrong Headline, and the Quiet Ledger of the Coaching MarketA video. Sixty minutes long. Inside it, a defence: 1.e4 d5, 2.exd5 Qxd5 — the...
One Rating Is Not One Authority: Budapest's Tri-Format Pilot and Total Chess's Unfinished LedgerSeventy-three days. The announcement surfaced on 29 August 2026; the first mo...
The Anti-Scotch Repertoire, Kasparov's Shadow, and a Headline's False PromiseA headline promised young British prodigies. What emerged inside the page was...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: The Headline Gap and the LedgerA FIDE General Assembly has reportedly adopted a resolution on shorter time...
The Endgame Accountant: Karsten Müller, Hamburg Club Economics, and Dhaka's Empty HallMy Chennai notebook is still open on the desk — the 44th Chess Olympiad of...
One Headline, Another Body: The Anatomy of an Anti-1.d4 Course Sale Behind the US ChampionshipsOne Headline, Another Body: The Anatomy of an Anti-1.d4 Course Sale Behind th...
The "Antidote" Claim of 9...a5 and a Mismatched Headline: The Evidence Ledger of a King's Indian DVD"Computers often do not know how to handle these positions." That exact...
Tournament in the Headline, Course in the Body: Chess Theory Inflation and the Market for ShortcutsLast week I opened a page. The headline was a tournament's: “Vlastimil Hort...