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Clutch Chess, Valeri Lilov, and a Headline That Doesn't Belong to the GameOne in the morning, and the café on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street had already stack...
King's Indian Defense: 9...a5 and the Gap Before the Bayonet StormThe cover promised one thing. The inside told another. The document opens wit...
The 9...a5 Move and the King's Indian Opening Preparation RaceA small move on the queenside has become a focal point for chess coaches. In...
Bayegan Pendik, Monte-Carlo and the Board Nobody Saw: The 2026 European Club Cup ChampionsNha Trang, three in the morning. The headline on ChessBase reads: Bayegan...
Rachel Li, an Unverified Title and a 60-Minute Scandinavian Defense VideoThe chess club sits at the end of a concrete lane on the outer ring of...
European Club Cup 2026: Three Co-Leaders Before the Final Round and the Data Gap in the Open SectionThe final round of the 2026 European Club Cup will be decided by the players...
European Club Cup: Three Co-Leaders, a Blurred Standings Table and the Decisive Final-Round GameInside the commentary room of the European Club Cup there is a sound I never...
Daniel King Patches the Najdorf in 60 Minutes: Power Play 18 and the Price of an Arsenal That Always ExpiresDaniel King says it at the third minute of a video that runs exactly 60...
FRITZ 20 and the FIDE Bait: When Chess Software Ads Borrow a President's NameA headline caught my eye while scrolling a chess feed: FIDE leadership meets ...
Daniel King and 60 Minutes of Najdorf Maintenance: When Opening Theory Needs PatchingIn a chess cafe on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, I watched a middle-aged man...
Budva 2026: 108 Club Teams, One at 2715, and a Title Rented by ContractIn the third drawer of the wooden cabinet in Nha Trang, I keep a photograph...
European Club Cup: Bayegan Pendik lead by 65 Elo per board, and that is not yet enoughThe sound of chess clocks pressed in a hall of hundreds of boards does not...
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 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...
The Najdorf Updated: A Map of the Chess BattlefieldThere are mistakes in analysis work that one never forgets. In 2026, while...
Daniel King and the Najdorf Update: Five Opening Battlegrounds in Sixty MinutesI opened the file close to midnight, Moscow time. The headline promised a...
The Strange Comforts of Superstition in Chess: Dissecting the Fifth Move e5In the winter of 2026, at a small chess cafe in the Phu Nhuan district, I sat...
Against 1.d4 d5: When White Avoids Theory, Black Must Learn Something HarderI still remember an evening at a chess club in Nha Trang, when a...
Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, Scores 6/7 with a 2504 Performance at the Samarkand 2026 Chess OlympiadAt board one for England's women's team at the Samarkand 2026 Chess Olympiad,...
3.Bc4 and an 11-Year-Old: Samarkand's 2504 Scoreline Doesn't Tell the Whole TruthIn Samarkand at night, I sat before the screen with a cup of tea long gone...
3.Bc4 in Samarkand: An 11-Year-Old on Board One and the 2504 That Never Appears on the ScoreboardOn board one of England's women's team at the Samarkand 2026 Chess Olympiad, ...
Sixty Minutes and Five Line-Complexes: Daniel King Updates the Najdorf SicilianSixty minutes. Five line-complexes. One man sitting at a chessboard, speaking...
The 9...a5 Move and the Rebellion Against Computers in the King's Indian DefenseA Shanghai evening. I reopened a game on my tablet. Not a game by a top playe...
The Scotch Opening: When Kasparov Revived a Forgotten WeaponIn 2026, in Lyon, an opening that the chess elite had filed away as "harmless...
When the October 2026 FIDE Title Hid a Chess Game: The Scotch Opening, Kasparov's Ghost, and the 60-Minute ClockThe wind from the Han River blew through my small attic in Da Nang where I...
The Scotch, Kasparov 2026, and the Lesson of an Underrated OpeningNha Trang, a late weekend evening. I open my usual database and paste into th...
Chinese Chess: The Gap Between Data and Personnel Transfer RealityIn the world of professional chess, there is a frequently overlooked paradox:...
The Scotch Game: The Spatial Map of an Opening Once Dismissed as HarmlessOn the board of the 2026 World Championship match, Garry Kasparov pushed his...
India and the 2026 Chess Olympiad: A Production Line, Not a MiracleOn September 22, 2026, in Budapest, board three of the Indian team closed the...
Samarkand R8: China's Women Lead 15/16, and How a Training Magazine Packages News Into ProductIt was a midweek evening in Shanghai. I sat on the balcony with my phone,...
FRITZ 20 and the Lesson of Individualized Training from Chessboard to PitchIn a small Moscow apartment, amid stacks of match recordings piled as high as...
The Right King Road: An Anti-1.d4 Chess Course Through the Looking GlassAt midnight in Da Nang, I reopened a website selling a chess course. The...
Samarkand's 'record-breaking' Chess Olympiad: the headline promises one thing, the body delivers anotherA headline declared that Samarkand is ready for a record-breaking Chess...
The Empty Column: Chess Writing and the Discipline of DataAt nine in the evening inside a chess hall, the pairing board was taped to an...
