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ChessBayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo Win the 2026 European Club Cup — and the Board Left BehindThe headline arrived as compact as a forced move: Bayegan Pendik and...
ChessRachel Li Wins the US Women's Championship: A Headline With No Crosstable2 a.m. in Delhi. I opened the link for the fourth time that night. The headli...
ChessElephant Gambit 2...d5: The Real Value of a 60-Minute Surprise WeaponThe product page says one thing; the twelve lines of description inside say...
ChessIM Andrew Martin's 60-Minute Scandinavian: A Decent 1...d5, an Overreach, and a Crack in the HeadlineAt 1:47 in the morning, Da Nang still hums with trucks rolling off Nguyen Tat...
ChessTotal Chess and the Unified Rating: The Claim Arrives Before the DefinitionOn 29 August 2026, a short release appeared. Four names. Twelve days in...
ChessTotal Chess unveils Budapest pilot: the headline promises a unified rating, the body delivers only a format experimentDa Nang, August 2026, rain. I read the release dated 29 August 2026 on my pho...
ChessThe Pawn Sacrifice on Move Two: The Elephant Gambit, the Business of Surprise, and the Trap Inside the Seller's HandNine in the evening, the playing hall of a chess club on the second floor of ...
ChessThe Move That Needs No Board: When a Chess Game Becomes a Business ProblemMy recording is still there, sitting neatly in the third drawer of my desk in...
ChessThe Elephant Gambit: Andrew Martin's 60 Minutes and the True Price of an Opening ShockA pawn is sacrificed on move two. Not after fifteen moves of exchanges, not a...
ChessThe Endgame and Its Translator: Karsten Müller in the Age of the MachineOn a Tuesday night, a small chess club tucked deep in an alley off Nguyen Chi...
ChessThe Scotch Game and Mikhalchishin's Shield: When an Opening Stops Being FearsomeIn the autumn of 2026, in New York, during the world championship match, Garr...
ChessPerfect Scores and the Games Nobody RecordsTwo players sit facing each other across a board of sixty-four squares. There...
ChessAwonder Liang beats Hans Niemann in the US Championships first round: reading the headline, finding the dataAwonder Liang beat Hans Niemann in the first round of the US Championships. T...
ChessKostya Kavutskiy and ChessBase's Content Bet: How the Chess Market Is Repricing the TeacherOn December 9, 2026, ChessBase published the second part of its review of two...
ChessUS Championships: Awonder Liang Beats Hans Niemann in an All-Around Exciting First RoundThe opening game of Round 1 at the United States Chess Championships ended wi...
ChessAfter 1.d4 d5: When White Refuses Theory, Which Map Must Black Learn?At the 2026 national championship, I sat in the third row of the playing hall...
ChessThe 2504 of an 11-Year-Old: Bodhana Sivanandan and the Small-Sample TrapIn the seventh round of the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, I stopped at a line ...
ChessBodhana Sivanandan: Age 11, 6/7 and a 2504 Performance on Board One at the Samarkand 2026 Chess OlympiadAt the age of 11, Bodhana Sivanandan is playing board one for England's women...
ChessWhen a Headline Promises a Tournament but the Body Delivers Six Opening VideosOn a Saturday evening, I opened a post on a Russian chess forum. The headline...
ChessChessBase Magazine Issue 225: A Bent Larsen Headline and a Table of Contents Without LarsenIn my notebook tracking chess publications, every issue carries a self-assign...
ChessRachel Li Wins the US Women's Championship: A Headline With No Crosstable2 a.m. in Delhi. I opened the link for the fourth time that night. The headli...
ChessElephant Gambit 2...d5: The Real Value of a 60-Minute Surprise WeaponThe product page says one thing; the twelve lines of description inside say...
ChessIM Andrew Martin's 60-Minute Scandinavian: A Decent 1...d5, an Overreach, and a Crack in the HeadlineAt 1:47 in the morning, Da Nang still hums with trucks rolling off Nguyen Tat...
ChessTotal Chess and the Unified Rating: The Claim Arrives Before the DefinitionOn 29 August 2026, a short release appeared. Four names. Twelve days in...
ChessTotal Chess unveils Budapest pilot: the headline promises a unified rating, the body delivers only a format experimentDa Nang, August 2026, rain. I read the release dated 29 August 2026 on my pho...
ChessThe Pawn Sacrifice on Move Two: The Elephant Gambit, the Business of Surprise, and the Trap Inside the Seller's HandNine in the evening, the playing hall of a chess club on the second floor of ...
ChessThe Move That Needs No Board: When a Chess Game Becomes a Business ProblemMy recording is still there, sitting neatly in the third drawer of my desk in...
ChessThe Elephant Gambit: Andrew Martin's 60 Minutes and the True Price of an Opening ShockA pawn is sacrificed on move two. Not after fifteen moves of exchanges, not a...
ChessThe Endgame and Its Translator: Karsten Müller in the Age of the MachineOn a Tuesday night, a small chess club tucked deep in an alley off Nguyen Chi...
ChessThe Scotch Game and Mikhalchishin's Shield: When an Opening Stops Being FearsomeIn the autumn of 2026, in New York, during the world championship match, Garr...
ChessPerfect Scores and the Games Nobody RecordsTwo players sit facing each other across a board of sixty-four squares. There...
ChessAwonder Liang beats Hans Niemann in the US Championships first round: reading the headline, finding the dataAwonder Liang beat Hans Niemann in the first round of the US Championships. T...
ChessKostya Kavutskiy and ChessBase's Content Bet: How the Chess Market Is Repricing the TeacherOn December 9, 2026, ChessBase published the second part of its review of two...
ChessUS Championships: Awonder Liang Beats Hans Niemann in an All-Around Exciting First RoundThe opening game of Round 1 at the United States Chess Championships ended wi...
ChessAfter 1.d4 d5: When White Refuses Theory, Which Map Must Black Learn?At the 2026 national championship, I sat in the third row of the playing hall...
ChessThe 2504 of an 11-Year-Old: Bodhana Sivanandan and the Small-Sample TrapIn the seventh round of the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, I stopped at a line ...
ChessBodhana Sivanandan: Age 11, 6/7 and a 2504 Performance on Board One at the Samarkand 2026 Chess OlympiadAt the age of 11, Bodhana Sivanandan is playing board one for England's women...
ChessWhen a Headline Promises a Tournament but the Body Delivers Six Opening VideosOn a Saturday evening, I opened a post on a Russian chess forum. The headline...
ChessChessBase Magazine Issue 225: A Bent Larsen Headline and a Table of Contents Without LarsenIn my notebook tracking chess publications, every issue carries a self-assign...
