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Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027 and a Scandinavian Defense Video: A Headline That Cannot Survive the Data2026-10-17At 11 p.m., after closing the last online game of the evening, I opened a pag...
Game of the Week #740: How 5.e5! Reopens a Forgotten Italian Game Corridor2026-09-26Move five. White pushes the pawn from e4 to e5, and the board suddenly...
Pakistan Boycotts Israel Chess Match at 2026 Olympiad: A Forfeited Board and Its Sporting Consequences2026-09-17Samarkand, Uzbekistan, September 15, 2026. The opening round of the 46th FIDE...
Divya Deshmukh and Vaishali after Olympiad Gold: The 'Stronger' Claim and the Data Gap2026-09-16I have a habit of rewinding. Whenever a statement about chess makes it into t...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and a Headline That Wandered OffIn the entire promotional text for ChessBase Magazine issue 225, four numbers...
The 9...a5 Move in the King's Indian: A Promise to Escape Theory Must Be Measured in Data, Not in FeelingLast Saturday, at a small chess club on Nguyen Thien Thuat Street in Nha Tran...
9...a5 in the King's Indian: Preparation Advantage and the Price of a Rare MoveThe board stopped on move nine. White pushed b4, the pawn lunging forward lik...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The European Club Cup in the Headline, the Prague Board in the BodyAutumn is European Club Cup season. There, a 2600 grandmaster can be paid by ...
Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027 and a Scandinavian Defense Video: A Headline That Cannot Survive the DataAt 11 p.m., after closing the last online game of the evening, I opened a pag...
An Opening Course Wearing a Tournament Headline: Re-reading IM Andrew Martin's Scandinavian DefenseI reopened that chess product page on an evening in Nha Trang, and stopped at...
US Chess Championships: Woodward Stuns Caruana, Lee Widens Her LeadUS Chess Championships: Woodward Stuns Caruana, Lee Widens Her Lead A young...
Atyrau Masters: Two Top Seeds Fall and the Content Structure Behind the HeadlineThe game ended and I could not read a single move. The top two seeds at the...
Atyrau Masters: Top Two Seeds Fall, and the Gap Behind the HeadlineOn the chess board in Atyrau, the oil city on the Caspian shore of Kazakhstan...
Yu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren in Shenzhen: Reading the Win Through the ClockIn the corridor of a hotel overlooking Shenzhen Bay, someone was recounting a...
The Move 5.e5 and the Strange Comforts of Superstition in ChessI once watched a game at a club tournament in Chengdu where Black needed 41...
An 11-Year-Old on Board One: What Really Lies Behind the 2504 Performance at the Samarkand OlympiadAt the seventh round of the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, in the women's...
11-year-old chess prodigy Bodhana Sivanandan scores 6/7 and posts a 2504 performance at the Samarkand 2026 OlympiadAt the national-team chess Olympiad taking place in Samarkand, Uzbekistan,...
Is Chess the Least Expressive Sport? A Perspective from a Former Badminton AthleteIn the increasingly heated debate about the spectator appeal of mind sports, ...
Samarkand 2026: India Retains the Gaprindashvili Cup for a Third Time, but Both Section Crowns Have Changed HandsSamarkand 2026: India Retains the Gaprindashvili Cup for a Third Time, but Bo...
Game of the Week #740: How 5.e5! Reopens a Forgotten Italian Game CorridorMove five. White pushes the pawn from e4 to e5, and the board suddenly...
