Chess
FIDE World Amateur Chess Championships 2026: Aqil Maintains Perfect Score as Tulegenov Regains Open U-2300 Lead After Six Rounds
Samarkand Women's Team, Round 7: One Match Point in the Headline, No Board Result Inside
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Articles — Who Measures the Weight of Training?
The New Era of Benko Gambit: The Hidden Truth of the Chess Industry Behind Software Sales
FIDE World Amateur Chess Championships 2026: Aqil Maintains Perfect Score as Tulegenov Regains Open U-2300 Lead After Six RoundsSix Wins, One Unfinished Story: Aqil Faces His Biggest Test Sometimes the...
When the Scoresheet Is Blank: The Ledger of Evidence and the Market of AssumptionSeptember 2026, Tbilisi. The FIDE World Cup, a 128-player knockout stretched...
Behind the 5/5: Savitha Shri, India Women's Backbone, and the Hard Arithmetic of Five RoundsA 19-year-old sitting on board four has played five games and won all five. O...
Sixty Minutes, Two Colours: The Chess Repertoire That Forgot Which Side It Was For, and the Real Price of Bangladesh's Chess MemoryDelhi, February, around one in the morning. One light in the room, the laptop...
Fujairah to Host WFCC Grand Prix Final — Behind the Headline Sits a ChessBase Magazine PromotionA report published on ChessBase carries a headline stating that Fujairah, in...
Samarkand Women's Team, Round 7: One Match Point in the Headline, No Board Result InsideWednesday morning, Bangalore desk. I open a page looking for the standings of...
A 60-Minute Course, an 11-Year-Old Record Headline: The Data Crack in Chess ContentI have counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than...
The Page Said Najdorf; the Moves Said Elephant GambitI opened the page last week, around eleven at night, from my flat in Saint...
The Headline Says Rachel Li. The Body Says Scandinavian. The Crosstable Says Nothing Yet.The headline ran eleven words. The body ran sixty minutes. Eleven words claim...
108 Teams in Budva, One Above 2700: Will the Paper Favourite Hold?The round-three pairing list went up on the wall of the Budva hall with tape,...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Articles — Who Measures the Weight of Training?My eye stopped, on the September release list, not at a famous name but at a...
Vahap Şanal, NATO Chess and the Najdorf Update: The Headline With No Crosstable Behind ItThe steel cupboard in the Purana Paltan chess hall opened for me first in 202...
Six Boards in Budva: Club Chess’s Old Ledger Under a 2715 AverageThe scoreboard in Budva showed a bright number after two rounds: 25. Out of 1...
The New Era of Benko Gambit: The Hidden Truth of the Chess Industry Behind Software SalesBlockchain technology has entered the world of chess, but the problem is that...
The Sixty-Minute Elephant Gambit: The Price of a Weapon in the Chess Market, and an Empty Coffee RingBudva was in the headline. It was not in the body. There was no score sheet...
Two Upsets in the Headline, Zero Numbers in the Body: The Elephant Gambit Sales LedgerAn article landed on my desk. Its headline carried two genuine competitive...
The Fall of the Top Two Seeds at the Atyrau Masters: Behind the Chess Headline, the Body and the Training EconomyThe top two seeds at the Atyrau Masters lost in the opening rounds. That is a...
ChessBase's New Bet: Kavutskiy's Two Courses, the Ris-Sokolov Shadow, and the Risk Ledger a Club Player Actually SeesHook: A New Name, An Old Ledger ChessBase has added a new name to its...
Learning Strategy from Bent Larsen: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Quiet Economy of Chess ContentFrom a Mymensingh bedroom, close to two in the morning, an announcement rose ...
The Saint Louis Mask, the Prague Pulse: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Information Injury of the Chess Training IndustryFor the past few years I have developed a habit. Before reading any chess...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles — and a Headline That Doesn't Match the BodyEleven at night. A laptop open in a Mumbai flat. I am sitting in front of a...
Sixty-Minute Scandinavian: Carlsen's Name, a Coach's Credential, and the Unwritten Ledger of an Opening CourseA clock is running on the screen. Sixty minutes. Beside it hangs a...
The Underdog's Move: Italian Game 5.e5!, Unverified Promises, and the Quiet Physiology of the Chess MarginThe fans in the chess hall at Purana Paltan hum in the same key as the clocks...
Unverified Chess Lesson in Underdog Packaging: The 5.e5 Mystery from a Mymensingh BedroomFrom a Mymensingh bedroom, I learned the stadium is only a screen. In 2026...
The Price of e5: From an Erigaisi Move to a Club-Level PromiseThe first time I saw 5.e5 on a demonstration board in a club hall, it was not...
5.e5! — The Modern Italian's Edge, the Trap Ledger, and an Unequal Pairing's Evidence GapThe pieces are set, and White faces one question: does he take his centre bac...
54 Moves in Samarkand: India's Single-Point Dependence Behind Gukesh's EscapeThe steel cupboard still holds the echo of a crowd that never came. Inside it...
Five Najdorfs in Sixty Minutes: Load in the Chess-Instruction Market, an Unverified FIDE Headline, and One Diagnostic ErrorIt was half past eleven at night in Boston when I opened the file, and the...
The Price of 5.e5: A King Walks in the Headline, Nobody Walks in the FootnotesA king went for a walk. That is exactly what the headline promised: a hidden...