Chess
The Title-Body Contradiction: What the Hong Kong Team Rapid-Blitz Report Refuses to Answer About Ding Liren's Form
Fujairah to Host WFCC Grand Prix Final: A Premier Gathering for Chess Composition and Solving Amid Commercial Framing
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Body Ledger Nobody Keeps Inside a Training Package
Carlsen No Longer Plays Five-Hour Games: The New Arithmetic of Staying No. 1 at 35
A Prodigy in the Title, 5 e5 in the Body: The Promise Chess Content Never Keeps
15-Year-Old Besou Leads Bavarian Championship: The Trap of Turning a Regional Result into a 'Prodigy'On a Saturday afternoon in the lobby of a Chennai hotel during the 44th...
The Title-Body Contradiction: What the Hong Kong Team Rapid-Blitz Report Refuses to Answer About Ding Liren's FormI laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. Reading the June 21,...
Four Moves, One Gap: The Prep Bill for Black in the Age of London, Colle, Torre and TrompowskyLet me start with something small. 1.d4 d5 — and then White does not play 2.c...
Fujairah to Host WFCC Grand Prix Final: A Premier Gathering for Chess Composition and Solving Amid Commercial FramingFujairah, in the United Arab Emirates, is set to host the Grand Prix Final of...
Contradiction in a Chess Opening Product Review: Two Openings in One Package, and a Pile of Unverified ClaimsA recently circulated review of a short-form chess instructional video has ru...
The Scotch 'solution' is on sale, but Bangladesh loses somewhere elseThe headline promised an Olympiad debut. The body delivered an advertisement...
Bent Larsen in the Title, a Table of Contents Inside: ChessBase #225 and the Ledger of Chess KnowledgeTwo in the morning in Dublin, seven in the morning in Dhaka. The usual...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Body Ledger Nobody Keeps Inside a Training PackageThe 225th issue of ChessBase Magazine entered the September release list...
A Perfect Score Without a Denominator: Novy Bor, SuperChess and the Scotch Video That Ate the StoryThe headline carried two names: Novy Bor, SuperChess. Both were described as...
Carlsen No Longer Plays Five-Hour Games: The New Arithmetic of Staying No. 1 at 35Magnus Carlsen is 35 now. For fifteen consecutive years he has held the world...
2715 vs 2600: The 115-Point Gap Nobody Is Counting in Budva's 108-Team FieldThe window in Budva opened onto the Adriatic. I did not look at it. On screen...
A Prodigy in the Title, 5 e5 in the Body: The Promise Chess Content Never KeepsI stopped at the title. "Endgame Magic #340: Three recent pearls with Bodhana...
The Elephant Gambit Market: Where Chess's Real Crisis LiesA 60-minute course, an old gambit, and a headline that says the European Club...
9...a5 and the Engine Alibi: What a King's Indian DVD Is Really Selling in the Bayonet Market9...a5. In the Mar del Plata branch of the King's Indian Defense, it is Black...
Dortmund in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: What a 60-Minute Promise Is Really Selling1:40 a.m. in Penang. The balcony air is wet, the laptop screen is the only...
Dortmund 2027 in the Headline, Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian Inside: The Gap Between Label and Price in the Chess Content MarketA link arrived in my inbox. The headline read "Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy...
The Bundesliga Clock: The 2026/87 Rules Dispute, a Grandmaster's Late Arrival, and Bodhana's ShadowThe 2026/87 German Chess Bundesliga settled the bottom of its table with a...
A Curious Rules Dispute in the Bundesliga: The 2026/87 IncidentThe German Chess Bundesliga has long been known for its continuity and...
The Headline Speaks of FIDE, the Page Speaks of the ScandinavianHalf past midnight in Penang. On my balcony chair, I open a chess page on my...
A Championship in the Headline, a Course Inside: Chess's Quiet InjuryThe headline was flat and confident: “US Championships: So and Liang remain...