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From Mar del Plata to Buenos Aires 2026: Inside the 9...a5 Anti-Bayonet Pitch
The FIDE Presidency, Fritz 20 and the Data Hole Inside a Chess News Item
6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: 140 Teams and the Boards Without an Audience
Daniel King and the Najdorf Update: Five Main Lines of the Theoretical Battlefield
Anatomy of a Misaligned Chess News Item: Wrong Identity, Off-Topic Body, and the Data-Verification Test
Three in Four Female Chess Players Report Bias or Harassment: FIDE Has the Number, the Sport Still Lacks the MethodAt the national youth chess championship in Nha Trang in 2026, I stood in the...
The 9...a5 antidote to the Bayonet Attack: inside a disc labelled Capablanca 2026In a chess club in Andheri, Mumbai, the DVD sits in a clear plastic case with...
From Mar del Plata to Buenos Aires 2026: Inside the 9...a5 Anti-Bayonet PitchFrom Mar del Plata to Buenos Aires 2026: Inside the 9...a5 Anti-Bayonet Pitch...
Carlsen, AI and the Shorter Game: When the Crown and the World No. 1 Rank Split in TwoOn October 21, I read Magnus Carlsen's answers to AS three times in a row. No...
Carlsen: 'AI Shows Humans Aren't That Good' — The Spatial Map of a Champion Changing TempoFourteen seconds. That is not the duration of a move, but the time it takes f...
The FIDE Presidency, Fritz 20 and the Data Hole Inside a Chess News ItemThe headline reached me at 6:12 a.m. Chengdu time on an aggregator feed: "FID...
The Scandinavian Defense: 60 Minutes to Learn, a Middlegame Nobody TeachesNovember. Frost on the window of a small chess club on Vasilyevsky Island,...
Total Chess and the Unified Rating Proposal: When Format Runs Ahead of the RulesOn 29 August 2026, a short chess news item placed two words in front of me:...
The Move of the Seconds: When an Opening DVD Exposes the Blind Spot of Vietnamese Women's ChessIn a national women's chess event's analysis room, there is a moment every...
The Reckless Move of the Forgotten: The Elephant Gambit and the Art of Gambling on the Second SquareIn an old videotape I found at a sports bookshop along Tran Phu Street, there...
Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: The Dortmund 2027 Headline and the Gap Between Promise and BoardAfter 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3, the black queen stands in the center and Whi...
Atyrau Masters: Two Top Seeds Fall and the Void Behind the HeadlineIn Atyrau — an oil city on the banks of the Ural River in western Kazakhstan ...
AI Solves a 58-Year-Old Chess Problem: 63 Is the Limit, 364 Remains OpenOn October 13, a short announcement appeared on a forum dedicated to formal...
6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: 140 Teams and the Boards Without an AudienceIn a shared room of a prison, twelve men sit around three chessboards set on...
Daniel King and the Najdorf Update: Five Main Lines of the Theoretical BattlefieldIn the international chess world, chess is not only a sport of intellectual...
UzChess Cup: The 7.b3 Move, a Short Game, and an Unresolved ContradictionOn a chessboard, some moves are born to fill a gap rather than to create a...
A Short Game, a Long Lesson: When the Brand Tells the Story Instead of the TruthA Short Game, a Long Lesson: When the Brand Tells the Story Instead of the...
After 1.d4 d5: A Response Map for Black Against Seven Theory-Avoiding OpeningsOn a Friday evening at a chess club on Nguyen Dinh Chieu Street, I stood behi...
Anatomy of a Misaligned Chess News Item: Wrong Identity, Off-Topic Body, and the Data-Verification TestWhile scanning Central Asian chess news for my Chinese-language feed, I stopp...
ChessBase Magazine No. 225: The Name on the Cover and the Numbers in the FileOn a Friday evening, I opened the ChessBase Magazine No. 225 file on my...
ChessBase Magazine Issue 225: 27 Miniatures and the Promise in Bent Larsen's NameOn the cover of ChessBase Magazine issue 225 runs the line "Learn strategy fr...