Chess
Bayegan Pendik, Monte-Carlo and the Silence Beneath a Championship Headline
FRITZ 20 and the Trap of a Chess Headline That Cannot Stand
The 5.e5 Move and the Shelf Life of a Trap
Arrival Time and Fate: the Rule Dispute that Upended the Chess Bundesliga
The Empty Chair and Four Changes of Relegation: The 2026/87 Bundesliga Chess Affair
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: When a Periodical Reviews ItselfKCF Academy: Third Season Highlights — that headline sat at the top of a page...
ChessChessBase Magazine Issue 225: A Comprehensive Chess Training Package for the New SeasonIn the context of the constantly evolving world of chess, finding a...
ChessBayegan Pendik, Monte-Carlo and the Silence Beneath a Championship HeadlineDa Nang, a rainy weekend morning. I opened three tabs at once, out of...
ChessRachel Li, an Unverified Title, and Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian Defence MarketingAt a tea stall on Sampige Road in Bengaluru, a fifteen-year-old boy pushed hi...
ChessMagnus Carlsen and the Limits of Human Chess: Fifteen Years at No. 1, Five Titles and a Twentyfold GapIn a hotel room in Budapest, between two playing days of a new chess event,...
ChessFRITZ 20 and the Trap of a Chess Headline That Cannot StandA headline has been circulating in chess groups: FIDE meets a head of state,...
ChessDaniel King and the 60-Minute Najdorf Patch: When Chess Repertoires Become Maintenance ProductsA text file sat on the screen at three in the morning. The headline said Vaha...
ChessThe 5.e5 Move and the Shelf Life of a TrapAt a chess club session in District 3, I sat behind a young player for forty...
ChessThe 60-Minute Scandinavian Course: A Trust Test Behind a Mismatched HeadlineA headline names Grandmaster Arturs Neiksans. The body gives its entire space...
ChessEuropean Club Cup on ChessBase's Promo Page: A News Headline, a Training CatalogueAutumn in Saint Petersburg, I open a ChessBase article titled “European Club...
ChessThe Benko Gambit and the Deductible Loophole: When a 2600-Elo 'Review' Is Just an Engine Sales WrapperOver the past fifteen years, I have read no fewer than 400 chess strategy...
Chess9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: The King's Indian Strategic Move and an Unfilled Data GapIn my office in Chengdu, just past two in the morning, I stopped at a familia...
Chess9...a5 and the Promise of a 'Clean Solution' for the King's Indian DefenseI once sat for four hours in a small analysis room in Shanghai, watching a...
Chess"Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027": When a Tournament Headline Hides a Chess Course Sales PageLast weekend, a student from my coaching class in Da Nang sent me a link to a...
ChessWoodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap: When a New Generation Knocks on the Door of the US Chess ChampionshipWhen the black queen left the board on move forty-one, the entire playing hal...
ChessScandinavian Defense: The Controversial Time-Saving Weapon in ChessIn the international chess world, an instructional product called the...
ChessArrival Time and Fate: the Rule Dispute that Upended the Chess BundesligaThe chair at board one was still empty when the arbiter laid a hand on the...
ChessThe Empty Chair and Four Changes of Relegation: The 2026/87 Bundesliga Chess AffairI still keep that image in my head, even though it was just a blurred frame...
ChessThe Elephant Gambit 2...d5: A Dispute That Never Existed in the BundesligaThere is a headline I cannot forget. It sat at the top of an opening bulletin...
ChessYu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren in Shenzhen: Reading One Result Through Eleven Noise PointsAt 11 p.m. in Shenzhen, I was reviewing an old game in a database when my pho...
ChessScandinavian Defense: A Simple and Solid System for Club PlayersIn the world of chess, building an opening system that is both effective and...
ChessWhen a Bundesliga Headline Obscures a Najdorf UpdateI opened the news page with the familiar mindset of someone who has followed...
ChessUS Chess Championship: A Perfect Score Doesn't Tell the Whole Story, and the Defensive Puzzle After 1.d4 d5When the standings of the US Chess Championship appeared with two names shari...
ChessBodhana Sivanandan at 11 and the 2504 Performance at Samarkand: The Gap Behind a Beautiful NumberAt 2 a.m. on September 24, 2026, I sat in front of my spreadsheet and read on...
ChessChessBase Magazine Issue 225: A Comprehensive Chess Training Package for the New SeasonIn the context of the constantly evolving world of chess, finding a...
ChessBayegan Pendik, Monte-Carlo and the Silence Beneath a Championship HeadlineDa Nang, a rainy weekend morning. I opened three tabs at once, out of...
ChessRachel Li, an Unverified Title, and Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian Defence MarketingAt a tea stall on Sampige Road in Bengaluru, a fifteen-year-old boy pushed hi...
ChessMagnus Carlsen and the Limits of Human Chess: Fifteen Years at No. 1, Five Titles and a Twentyfold GapIn a hotel room in Budapest, between two playing days of a new chess event,...
ChessFRITZ 20 and the Trap of a Chess Headline That Cannot StandA headline has been circulating in chess groups: FIDE meets a head of state,...
ChessDaniel King and the 60-Minute Najdorf Patch: When Chess Repertoires Become Maintenance ProductsA text file sat on the screen at three in the morning. The headline said Vaha...
ChessThe 5.e5 Move and the Shelf Life of a TrapAt a chess club session in District 3, I sat behind a young player for forty...
ChessThe 60-Minute Scandinavian Course: A Trust Test Behind a Mismatched HeadlineA headline names Grandmaster Arturs Neiksans. The body gives its entire space...
ChessEuropean Club Cup on ChessBase's Promo Page: A News Headline, a Training CatalogueAutumn in Saint Petersburg, I open a ChessBase article titled “European Club...
ChessThe Benko Gambit and the Deductible Loophole: When a 2600-Elo 'Review' Is Just an Engine Sales WrapperOver the past fifteen years, I have read no fewer than 400 chess strategy...
Chess9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: The King's Indian Strategic Move and an Unfilled Data GapIn my office in Chengdu, just past two in the morning, I stopped at a familia...
Chess9...a5 and the Promise of a 'Clean Solution' for the King's Indian DefenseI once sat for four hours in a small analysis room in Shanghai, watching a...
Chess"Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027": When a Tournament Headline Hides a Chess Course Sales PageLast weekend, a student from my coaching class in Da Nang sent me a link to a...
ChessWoodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap: When a New Generation Knocks on the Door of the US Chess ChampionshipWhen the black queen left the board on move forty-one, the entire playing hal...
ChessScandinavian Defense: The Controversial Time-Saving Weapon in ChessIn the international chess world, an instructional product called the...
ChessArrival Time and Fate: the Rule Dispute that Upended the Chess BundesligaThe chair at board one was still empty when the arbiter laid a hand on the...
ChessThe Empty Chair and Four Changes of Relegation: The 2026/87 Bundesliga Chess AffairI still keep that image in my head, even though it was just a blurred frame...
ChessThe Elephant Gambit 2...d5: A Dispute That Never Existed in the BundesligaThere is a headline I cannot forget. It sat at the top of an opening bulletin...
ChessYu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren in Shenzhen: Reading One Result Through Eleven Noise PointsAt 11 p.m. in Shenzhen, I was reviewing an old game in a database when my pho...
ChessScandinavian Defense: A Simple and Solid System for Club PlayersIn the world of chess, building an opening system that is both effective and...
ChessWhen a Bundesliga Headline Obscures a Najdorf UpdateI opened the news page with the familiar mindset of someone who has followed...
ChessUS Chess Championship: A Perfect Score Doesn't Tell the Whole Story, and the Defensive Puzzle After 1.d4 d5When the standings of the US Chess Championship appeared with two names shari...
ChessBodhana Sivanandan at 11 and the 2504 Performance at Samarkand: The Gap Behind a Beautiful NumberAt 2 a.m. on September 24, 2026, I sat in front of my spreadsheet and read on...
