Chess
9...a5 in the King's Indian: A DVD That Sells Patience, Not an Advantage
Against 1.d4 d5: When White Avoids Theory, Black Must Learn Something Harder
3.Bc4 in Samarkand: An 11-Year-Old on Board One and the 2504 That Never Appears on the Scoreboard
Sixty Minutes and Five Line-Complexes: Daniel King Updates the Najdorf Sicilian
9...a5 in the King's Indian: A DVD That Sells Patience, Not an AdvantageA ninth move, a DVD, and twenty-five minutes of a clock running down On move...
ChessBase #225: A European Club Cup headline, a page selling a training habitIn a small room in Nha Trang, I opened the 225th issue of ChessBase Magazine...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Four Annotators and a Gap on the CoverEleven words in the headline. More than a thousand in the body. Between the t...
The Elephant's Gambit: Andrew Martin Awakens a Forgotten Line in Sixty MinutesIn the history of openings, there are systems that never die — they are merel...
The Elephant's Gamble: When an Opening Bet Becomes a ProductThere is a moment I keep returning to on tape: a game at the European Club Cu...
The Elephant Gambit 2...d5: Sixty Minutes of Video, Four Promises and a Data VoidThe headline promises sports news: the European Club Cup kicks off in Budva....
9...a5 and the Bayonet: When a Minor Line Is Sold as a Master KeyThere is a moment in the King's Indian Defense that makes any player holding...
The d5 Move and the Gap Between Headline and Body: Re-reading a US Chess News PageTwo... d5. A black pawn placed on the d5 square on just the second move,...
Atyrau Masters: The Top Two Seeds Fall and an Echo from the Oil CountryAtyrau is an oil city on the banks of the Ural River in western Kazakhstan, a...
Double Agent and a 58-Year-Old Chess Problem: 63 Checking Moves Proven to Be the LimitIn the small room where I once sat beside a chess problem composer in...