Chess
The 9...a5 Move in the King's Indian Defence: Practical Value and the Verification GapAt a third-board game in a weekend team event, the player with Black placed a...
A Headline About Caruana, a Body Teaching the London System: The Fracture in Chess Content“Extremely dangerous” and “not ambitious” sit a few lines apart, in the same...
A 60-Minute Patch for the Najdorf: Daniel King Updates Black's System, but Verification Data Is Still MissingBoard Seven, and Eleven Minutes of Silence The game began 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3....
Najdorf B90–B99: Daniel King's 60-Minute Update and the Limits of a Theory PatchIn my editing room, I keep the habit of slowing the footage to the exact fram...
European Club Cup in Budva: Bayegan Pendik at 2715 and the 103-Team Tail the Rating List HidesOn the second night in Budva I had three windows open at once: the pairing...
Carlsen: AI Has Levelled Preparation, and Why the World No. 1 Now Chooses to Win FasterOne morning in late October I opened three tabs at once — an old habit from m...
Carlsen and the Human Ceiling: When AI Flattens Advantage and the Elo Crown Splits from the ThroneIn an interview with AS published on October 21, Magnus Carlsen said somethin...
The Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: A Course, Magnus Carlsen's Name, and a Hole in the HeadlineIn March, at an amateur tournament in Chengdu, I sat behind a 1,890-rated...
The 5.e5 Thrust and the Price of a Memorized WeaponBoard seven. The digital clock showed eleven minutes per side. White, a...
The 5 e5! Push in 60 Minutes: When the Title and the Board Tell Two Different StoriesDa Nang, the last Saturday of the month. The chess club sits on the second...
European Club Cup and the 27-Miniature Special: Inside a Training PublicationThe European Club Cup ends, the favourites win comfortably, and a chess...
The Elephant Gambit, a 60-Minute Video, and the Price of Surprise in Vietnam's Club Chess SceneA Sunday morning at a small chess club on Nguyen Thien Thuat street in Nha...
The Elephant's Gamble: Why the Elephant Gambit Still Makes Chess Players WaryIn the four matches I have most recently observed at regional Asian team...
The Elephant's Second Move: Andrew Martin and the Opening Gamble at BudvaOn my desk in Mumbai there is a set of notes from July, when I followed a...
Atyrau Masters: Top Seeds Fall Early and the 2026 Chess Content PipelineThe clock in Delhi had just passed 2 a.m. The tea had gone cold long ago, and...
The Scotch Opening: From 'Harmless' to Kasparov's Weapon and How to Neutralize ItIn the world of chess, some openings seem forgotten, dismissed as 'harmless'...
The Scandinavian Defense and the Race to Save Time: When a FIDE Resolution Was Given the Wrong SignboardThe Russian summer, I went looking for queens whose names were not on the map...
One Late Name and the Bundesliga Chess Season of 2026/87 Turned Upside DownThe clock on board one had already run for seventeen minutes when the door of...
Two Opening Labels for One Game: When Promotion Overrides DataA chess game cannot begin with both 1.d4 and 1.e4. That is the first truth an...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Behind the Bent Larsen Name Lies a Multi-Format Training BundleBent Larsen. To anyone who has sat in front of a chessboard for more than a...
A Headline About Caruana, a Body Teaching the London System: The Fracture in Chess Content“Extremely dangerous” and “not ambitious” sit a few lines apart, in the same...
A 60-Minute Patch for the Najdorf: Daniel King Updates Black's System, but Verification Data Is Still MissingBoard Seven, and Eleven Minutes of Silence The game began 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3....
Najdorf B90–B99: Daniel King's 60-Minute Update and the Limits of a Theory PatchIn my editing room, I keep the habit of slowing the footage to the exact fram...
European Club Cup in Budva: Bayegan Pendik at 2715 and the 103-Team Tail the Rating List HidesOn the second night in Budva I had three windows open at once: the pairing...
Carlsen: AI Has Levelled Preparation, and Why the World No. 1 Now Chooses to Win FasterOne morning in late October I opened three tabs at once — an old habit from m...
Carlsen and the Human Ceiling: When AI Flattens Advantage and the Elo Crown Splits from the ThroneIn an interview with AS published on October 21, Magnus Carlsen said somethin...
The Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: A Course, Magnus Carlsen's Name, and a Hole in the HeadlineIn March, at an amateur tournament in Chengdu, I sat behind a 1,890-rated...
The 5.e5 Thrust and the Price of a Memorized WeaponBoard seven. The digital clock showed eleven minutes per side. White, a...
The 5 e5! Push in 60 Minutes: When the Title and the Board Tell Two Different StoriesDa Nang, the last Saturday of the month. The chess club sits on the second...
European Club Cup and the 27-Miniature Special: Inside a Training PublicationThe European Club Cup ends, the favourites win comfortably, and a chess...
The Elephant Gambit, a 60-Minute Video, and the Price of Surprise in Vietnam's Club Chess SceneA Sunday morning at a small chess club on Nguyen Thien Thuat street in Nha...
The Elephant's Gamble: Why the Elephant Gambit Still Makes Chess Players WaryIn the four matches I have most recently observed at regional Asian team...
The Elephant's Second Move: Andrew Martin and the Opening Gamble at BudvaOn my desk in Mumbai there is a set of notes from July, when I followed a...
Atyrau Masters: Top Seeds Fall Early and the 2026 Chess Content PipelineThe clock in Delhi had just passed 2 a.m. The tea had gone cold long ago, and...
The Scotch Opening: From 'Harmless' to Kasparov's Weapon and How to Neutralize ItIn the world of chess, some openings seem forgotten, dismissed as 'harmless'...
The Scandinavian Defense and the Race to Save Time: When a FIDE Resolution Was Given the Wrong SignboardThe Russian summer, I went looking for queens whose names were not on the map...
One Late Name and the Bundesliga Chess Season of 2026/87 Turned Upside DownThe clock on board one had already run for seventeen minutes when the door of...
Two Opening Labels for One Game: When Promotion Overrides DataA chess game cannot begin with both 1.d4 and 1.e4. That is the first truth an...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Behind the Bent Larsen Name Lies a Multi-Format Training BundleBent Larsen. To anyone who has sat in front of a chessboard for more than a...
