Chess
ChessBodhana Sivanandan: 11 Years Old and a 38-Year IM Record ErasedTwo in the morning, Da Nang time, 24 October 2026. I sat in front of a screen...
Chess77 Chess Teams Behind Bars: A Five-Continent Tournament and the Games No One Gets to SeeOn 23 May 2026, in a supervised common room in Zimbabwe, a player rested a ha...
ChessElephant Gambit: A 60-Minute Video, a Mismatched Title, and the Real Limits of a Surprise WeaponTwo Names for One Move Before the corridor lights come on across Shanghai, I...
ChessDaniel King's 60-Minute Najdorf Patch: Opening Theory as Maintenance WorkTuesday night, a chess cafe on Wuding Road, Shanghai, nine o'clock. A man in...
ChessThe Title Says Bodhana Sivanandan, the Data Says 5 e5!: Inside a 60-Minute Modern Italian Analysis Package21:47 in Nha Trang. I opened the data package of a newly released chess produ...
ChessIM Andrew Martin's 60-Minute Scandinavian Course: The Promise of Speed and the Gap After the OpeningSaturday evening, the playing hall of a chess club in Jing'an district, and t...
ChessThe Move That Never Reached the Board: When a Chess 'Review' Forgets What It Was ReviewingAn advertisement opens with a headline about the Benko Gambit, then spends th...
ChessThe Scandinavian Defense, a 60-minute video, and the false headline Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027The link arrived from a young reader in Da Nang. He wrote one line: "Can you...
ChessDortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027: Anatomy of a Chess Headline That Does Not Exist, and the Story of the Scandinavian DefenseI opened that page on an evening in Hanoi, when the traffic outside had begun...
Chess9...a5 and the 'computers don't understand' promise: the most magnificent illusion in opening-theory chess9...a5 and the 'computers don't understand' promise: the most magnificent...
ChessAtyrau Masters 2026: Top Two Seeds Fall Early, and the Content Machine Behind the HeadlineThe only line in ChessBase Magazine issue 225 that deserves to be called news...
ChessUS Championships: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap and the Echo of an Old MoveThe second move was d5. In a tournament hall in the United States, among the...
ChessAtyrau Masters: Top Two Seeds Fall and the Signal in Unread DataIn the opening rounds of the Atyrau Masters, the top two seeds left the...
Chess6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners Kicks Off with a Record 140 TeamsIn the autumn of 2026, in a VTC studio, I commentated a chess game whose two...
ChessThe Elephant Gambit and a Bundesliga Dispute: When the Move d5 Gets Called 'Underrated'In a Bundesliga playing hall, Black's second move was not Nc6. It was d5 — a...
ChessA Result Without a Date: Yu Yangyi, Ding Liren and the Data Gap at the Shenzhen MastersA result without a date is a result that does not yet exist. Across forty-eig...
ChessYu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren at the Shenzhen Masters: A Real Victory in a Data VacuumOn the screen, the final move is placed. Yu Yangyi stands, extends his hand....
ChessThe Strange Comforts of Superstition in Chess: Why Club Players Still Trust the Move 5.e5On a late October night, in a small chess club on Petrogradskaya Street in...
ChessThe 5.e5 Thrust and the Strange Comfort of Superstition: When Club Chess Lives on What the Engine Leaves BehindThe game I had to replay three times did not belong to an elite event. It was...
ChessLiang Beats Niemann in the US Championship First Round: When a Game Is Sold as a ProductIn the age of the 30-second video, I spent three months listening to a man te...
ChessAfter 1.d4 d5: Six Quiet Entrances and How Black Learns to ListenAfter 1.d4 d5: Six Quiet Entrances and How Black Learns to Listen A November...
ChessLearning strategy from Bent Larsen: a chess publication and where its real value liesIn Saint Petersburg, winter always knocks earlier than the forecast. On a...
ChessNajdorf 2026: Five Decision Gates and the Limits of a 60-Minute UpdateThe fifth move of Black in the Sicilian Najdorf is a single letter:...a6. One...
ChessNajdorf: A 60-Minute Update and the Shelf-Life Problem of Chess TheoryDaniel King needs exactly 60 minutes to recount what has changed in one of th...
ChessTurkish Chess Prodigy Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş and the 2,730 ELO Milestone: Glory Ahead of VerificationSamarkand, September 2026. The tournament hall of the Chess Olympiad was as...
Chess77 Chess Teams Behind Bars: A Five-Continent Tournament and the Games No One Gets to SeeOn 23 May 2026, in a supervised common room in Zimbabwe, a player rested a ha...
ChessElephant Gambit: A 60-Minute Video, a Mismatched Title, and the Real Limits of a Surprise WeaponTwo Names for One Move Before the corridor lights come on across Shanghai, I...
ChessDaniel King's 60-Minute Najdorf Patch: Opening Theory as Maintenance WorkTuesday night, a chess cafe on Wuding Road, Shanghai, nine o'clock. A man in...
ChessThe Title Says Bodhana Sivanandan, the Data Says 5 e5!: Inside a 60-Minute Modern Italian Analysis Package21:47 in Nha Trang. I opened the data package of a newly released chess produ...
ChessIM Andrew Martin's 60-Minute Scandinavian Course: The Promise of Speed and the Gap After the OpeningSaturday evening, the playing hall of a chess club in Jing'an district, and t...
ChessThe Move That Never Reached the Board: When a Chess 'Review' Forgets What It Was ReviewingAn advertisement opens with a headline about the Benko Gambit, then spends th...
ChessThe Scandinavian Defense, a 60-minute video, and the false headline Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027The link arrived from a young reader in Da Nang. He wrote one line: "Can you...
ChessDortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027: Anatomy of a Chess Headline That Does Not Exist, and the Story of the Scandinavian DefenseI opened that page on an evening in Hanoi, when the traffic outside had begun...
Chess9...a5 and the 'computers don't understand' promise: the most magnificent illusion in opening-theory chess9...a5 and the 'computers don't understand' promise: the most magnificent...
ChessAtyrau Masters 2026: Top Two Seeds Fall Early, and the Content Machine Behind the HeadlineThe only line in ChessBase Magazine issue 225 that deserves to be called news...
ChessUS Championships: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap and the Echo of an Old MoveThe second move was d5. In a tournament hall in the United States, among the...
ChessAtyrau Masters: Top Two Seeds Fall and the Signal in Unread DataIn the opening rounds of the Atyrau Masters, the top two seeds left the...
Chess6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners Kicks Off with a Record 140 TeamsIn the autumn of 2026, in a VTC studio, I commentated a chess game whose two...
ChessThe Elephant Gambit and a Bundesliga Dispute: When the Move d5 Gets Called 'Underrated'In a Bundesliga playing hall, Black's second move was not Nc6. It was d5 — a...
ChessA Result Without a Date: Yu Yangyi, Ding Liren and the Data Gap at the Shenzhen MastersA result without a date is a result that does not yet exist. Across forty-eig...
ChessYu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren at the Shenzhen Masters: A Real Victory in a Data VacuumOn the screen, the final move is placed. Yu Yangyi stands, extends his hand....
ChessThe Strange Comforts of Superstition in Chess: Why Club Players Still Trust the Move 5.e5On a late October night, in a small chess club on Petrogradskaya Street in...
ChessThe 5.e5 Thrust and the Strange Comfort of Superstition: When Club Chess Lives on What the Engine Leaves BehindThe game I had to replay three times did not belong to an elite event. It was...
ChessLiang Beats Niemann in the US Championship First Round: When a Game Is Sold as a ProductIn the age of the 30-second video, I spent three months listening to a man te...
ChessAfter 1.d4 d5: Six Quiet Entrances and How Black Learns to ListenAfter 1.d4 d5: Six Quiet Entrances and How Black Learns to Listen A November...
ChessLearning strategy from Bent Larsen: a chess publication and where its real value liesIn Saint Petersburg, winter always knocks earlier than the forecast. On a...
ChessNajdorf 2026: Five Decision Gates and the Limits of a 60-Minute UpdateThe fifth move of Black in the Sicilian Najdorf is a single letter:...a6. One...
ChessNajdorf: A 60-Minute Update and the Shelf-Life Problem of Chess TheoryDaniel King needs exactly 60 minutes to recount what has changed in one of th...
ChessTurkish Chess Prodigy Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş and the 2,730 ELO Milestone: Glory Ahead of VerificationSamarkand, September 2026. The tournament hall of the Chess Olympiad was as...

