Chess
The Scandinavian Defense and a Name on the Box: What Really Sits Inside a 60-Minute Package
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: The Position, the Marketing, and the Data Gap Behind a Chess Product
The 9...a5 Move and the Misread Night of the King's Indian Defence
The Empty Framework: When the Chessboard Has No Move Left to Tell
Samarkand 2026: One Night Without a Room and India's Irreversible Clock
The 2026 Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Games Nobody Got to SeeIn 2026, in a tournament hall in Saigon, I set the board for a player with no...
When the Headline Says Bobby Fischer, But the Content Teaches How to Defuse the Scotch OpeningA chess promotional link appears with the headline “John Donaldson: New...
Master Class Vol. 20 – Bent Larsen: 60 Minutes of a 'Carlsen Weapon' or Just Marketing?Sixty minutes. One defense. Two legends. That is the formula of Master Class...
The Scandinavian Defense and a Name on the Box: What Really Sits Inside a 60-Minute PackageThere is a moment in every club game that players know by heart: after 1.e4,...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: When an Old Move Is Sold as a New AnswerThree in the morning, I muted the game and replayed a twenty-second clip. The...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: The Position, the Marketing, and the Data Gap Behind a Chess ProductA Saturday afternoon in Nha Trang, and I was peeling the plastic wrap off a...
Prague 2026 and ChessBase Magazine 225: Twenty-Seven Miniatures and Ten Opening ArticlesSaint Petersburg still had snow in March. I opened my laptop at 6:40 in the...
Samarkand 2026: India and the Challenge of Defending the Crown at the Chess OlympiadThe photo of the Indian team standing on the podium in Budapest is still on t...
The 9...a5 Move and the Misread Night of the King's Indian DefenceDa Nang rain brings me back to old King's Indian Defence games. Not to search...
The Chess Analyst's Craft: When Data Stays Silent, Do Not Invent Its VoiceIn a windowless meeting room at the training centre one March afternoon, the...
The Empty Framework: When the Chessboard Has No Move Left to TellDa Nang, close to eleven at night, rain falling steadily on the tin roof. I...
August Chess Releases: The Petroff Update and a Review the Seller Wrote for ItselfIt is 2:15 in the morning in Shanghai. The old laptop hums like an empty stan...
The 5.e5 Italian: A Practical Club Weapon and the Data Gap Nobody Has FilledA weekend rapid tournament in Shenzhen, board seven, round three. Black's clo...
Samarkand 2026: One Night Without a Room and India's Irreversible ClockThe Indian chess delegation's flight touched down in Samarkand. Five hours...
Eight Parts of Analysis, Not a Single MoveDa Nang, eleven at night. A young colleague sent me a file of more than four...
When the Headline Says Bobby Fischer, But the Content Teaches How to Defuse the Scotch OpeningA chess promotional link appears with the headline “John Donaldson: New...
Master Class Vol. 20 – Bent Larsen: 60 Minutes of a 'Carlsen Weapon' or Just Marketing?Sixty minutes. One defense. Two legends. That is the formula of Master Class...
The Scandinavian Defense and a Name on the Box: What Really Sits Inside a 60-Minute PackageThere is a moment in every club game that players know by heart: after 1.e4,...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: When an Old Move Is Sold as a New AnswerThree in the morning, I muted the game and replayed a twenty-second clip. The...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: The Position, the Marketing, and the Data Gap Behind a Chess ProductA Saturday afternoon in Nha Trang, and I was peeling the plastic wrap off a...
Prague 2026 and ChessBase Magazine 225: Twenty-Seven Miniatures and Ten Opening ArticlesSaint Petersburg still had snow in March. I opened my laptop at 6:40 in the...
Samarkand 2026: India and the Challenge of Defending the Crown at the Chess OlympiadThe photo of the Indian team standing on the podium in Budapest is still on t...
The 9...a5 Move and the Misread Night of the King's Indian DefenceDa Nang rain brings me back to old King's Indian Defence games. Not to search...
The Chess Analyst's Craft: When Data Stays Silent, Do Not Invent Its VoiceIn a windowless meeting room at the training centre one March afternoon, the...
The Empty Framework: When the Chessboard Has No Move Left to TellDa Nang, close to eleven at night, rain falling steadily on the tin roof. I...
August Chess Releases: The Petroff Update and a Review the Seller Wrote for ItselfIt is 2:15 in the morning in Shanghai. The old laptop hums like an empty stan...
The 5.e5 Italian: A Practical Club Weapon and the Data Gap Nobody Has FilledA weekend rapid tournament in Shenzhen, board seven, round three. Black's clo...
Samarkand 2026: One Night Without a Room and India's Irreversible ClockThe Indian chess delegation's flight touched down in Samarkand. Five hours...
Eight Parts of Analysis, Not a Single MoveDa Nang, eleven at night. A young colleague sent me a file of more than four...