Chess
The Scotch: An Opening Measured With the Wrong Ruler
King's Indian 9...a5: A Real Position Sold With a 2026 Pitch
The Elephant Gambit: A 60-Minute Psychological Weapon and the Price of Surprise
The 60-Minute Move: Andrew Martin and the Elephant Gambit Gamble in Budva
US Chess Championships: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and an Opening Move Misread
Capablanca on the Cover, 9...a5 Inside: When Opening Data Doesn't Match the HeadlineIn August 2026, in Buenos Aires, a 51-year-old Cuban sat down at board one of...
The Scotch: An Opening Measured With the Wrong RulerThe headline states that at the European Club Cup, Novy Bor and SuperChess ar...
Carlsen: AI Has Flattened Opening Preparation, So He Wins FasterBudapest, October 21. Magnus Carlsen said something chess will be quoting for...
Carlsen: 'AI Shows Humans Are Not That Good' — Re-reading the Endgame of the Engine EraWhen the World No. 1 Confesses His Imperfection In an interview with Spanish...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Four Training Layers and the Map of Who Gets Paid to Explain ChessNowhere in the promotional text for ChessBase Magazine issue 225 is there a...
King's Indian 9...a5: A Real Position Sold With a 2026 Pitch"Computers don't understand these positions." I read that line on the cover o...
The Elephant Gambit: A 60-Minute Psychological Weapon and the Price of SurpriseI opened the page at two in the morning, after a late podcast recording. The...
The 60-Minute Move: Andrew Martin and the Elephant Gambit Gamble in BudvaOn my desk there is a folder worn at the edges, marked in red pencil in three...
Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027 and the Data Gap in a Chess Product PageI opened a chess product page and saw a headline that demanded attention:...
The 'Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027' Headline That Leads to a 60-Minute Scandinavian Defense CourseLate November afternoon, I sat on the balcony overlooking Nha Trang bay,...
US Chess Championships: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and an Opening Move MisreadThe headline promises a game. "Woodward takes down Caruana." In the chess...
Yu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren in Shenzhen: A Big Result Buried Under an AdvertisementThe final game ended, and the name called out was Yu Yangyi. Ding Liren — the...
Yu Yangyi Defeats Ding Liren at Shenzhen Masters: Result Analysis and Verification QuestionsYu Yangyi's victory over Ding Liren at the Shenzhen Masters is drawing...
The Scotch and an Unkept Promise: When an Opening Is Declared No Longer FearsomeIn a video lasting just under ten minutes, an older man sits before a...
Two Perfect Scores at the US Chess Championship and a Feed Item Merged From the Wrong SourceThe middle rounds of the US Chess Championship had just closed, and the...
Kostya Kavutskiy and ChessBase's Content Gamble: When the Chess World Buys a Teacher's VoiceA winter night in Shanghai, in a small apartment in Yangpu District, a...
5.e5 and the Strange Comforts of Superstition in ChessA thin winter snow lay on the roof of the chess club on a small street near t...
