Chess
The Ninth Move and the Expiry Date of a Surprise: Reading a King's Indian Defence DVDA cafe in Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Tuesday night. The digital clock on the tab...
Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027: When a Chess Course Sales Page Borrows a Tournament Name and Magnus CarlsenThe headline reads “Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027,” but the page contains n...
The Chessboard With No Player: 63 Checking Moves and the Limit a Machine ProvedThree in the morning in Shanghai, and the city is so quiet that I can hear th...
Atyrau Masters: Top Two Seeds Fall Early, and the Gap Behind the HeadlineThe cover of ChessBase Magazine No. 225 opens with one line: the top two seed...
63 Legal Checking Moves: When AI Fully Proves a 58-Year-Old Chess ProblemOn October 13, in a week when the sports pages circled only around transfer...
Chess Behind Bars: The Record 140 Teams and the Gap No One Has VerifiedIn a corner of a prison cell with no grandstand, no wall-mounted scoreboard,...
Bundesliga 2026/87: When a Game Was Decided by a Late ArrivalIn the history of German chess, the Bundesliga has always been regarded as th...
London, Colle, Trompowsky: the Opening Problem Black Cannot SkipThere is a moment in amateur chess I have recorded hundreds of times in my...
743 Episodes of Game of the Week: Chess's Most Durable Asset Is Habit, Not the GameLast Wednesday, in a small studio in Delhi, I opened episode 743 of the Game ...
The "Silent" Openings After 1.d4 d5: When Fixed Systems Expose Those Pretending to Be AmbitiousIn January 2026, inside the commentary room at Wijk aan Zee, I pressed the...
IM Valeri Lilov and Six Videos Decoding 1.d4 d5: A Defensive Map for Black Against the Colle, Trompowsky, Torre and LondonThere is a silent moment on the board that I learned to love after years of...
Decoding 9...a5: An Antidote to the Bayonet Attack and a Crack in Chess's TrustIn the analysis room of a small club, a coach opens an opening DVD and pauses...
When a Former Badminton Athlete Calls Chess the Least Expressive SportIn my newsroom in Saint Petersburg, I turn down the television and watch two...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Bent Larsen on the Cover and What Is Really Inside 27 MiniaturesIn the summer of 2026, Bent Larsen died in Buenos Aires, taking with him a...
Daniel King's Najdorf Update: 60 Minutes of Theory and the Five Branches Black Must KnowIn a small apartment in Nha Trang, I leave a chessboard under the desk lamp a...
9...a5: Black's Strategic Escape from the Bayonet Attack in the King's Indian Defense9...a5: Black's Strategic Escape from the Bayonet Attack The ninth move on th...
Erdoğmuş, 2,731 and the 2026 Olympiad: The Unverified MedalI opened the Turkish Chess Federation's statement just before eleven at night...
A Chessboard at Fifteen: Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş and the Numbers Still Awaiting VerificationA press release exactly one page long. Eight points from ten games. One line...
Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027: When a Chess Course Sales Page Borrows a Tournament Name and Magnus CarlsenThe headline reads “Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027,” but the page contains n...
The Chessboard With No Player: 63 Checking Moves and the Limit a Machine ProvedThree in the morning in Shanghai, and the city is so quiet that I can hear th...
Atyrau Masters: Top Two Seeds Fall Early, and the Gap Behind the HeadlineThe cover of ChessBase Magazine No. 225 opens with one line: the top two seed...
63 Legal Checking Moves: When AI Fully Proves a 58-Year-Old Chess ProblemOn October 13, in a week when the sports pages circled only around transfer...
Chess Behind Bars: The Record 140 Teams and the Gap No One Has VerifiedIn a corner of a prison cell with no grandstand, no wall-mounted scoreboard,...
Bundesliga 2026/87: When a Game Was Decided by a Late ArrivalIn the history of German chess, the Bundesliga has always been regarded as th...
London, Colle, Trompowsky: the Opening Problem Black Cannot SkipThere is a moment in amateur chess I have recorded hundreds of times in my...
743 Episodes of Game of the Week: Chess's Most Durable Asset Is Habit, Not the GameLast Wednesday, in a small studio in Delhi, I opened episode 743 of the Game ...
The "Silent" Openings After 1.d4 d5: When Fixed Systems Expose Those Pretending to Be AmbitiousIn January 2026, inside the commentary room at Wijk aan Zee, I pressed the...
IM Valeri Lilov and Six Videos Decoding 1.d4 d5: A Defensive Map for Black Against the Colle, Trompowsky, Torre and LondonThere is a silent moment on the board that I learned to love after years of...
Decoding 9...a5: An Antidote to the Bayonet Attack and a Crack in Chess's TrustIn the analysis room of a small club, a coach opens an opening DVD and pauses...
When a Former Badminton Athlete Calls Chess the Least Expressive SportIn my newsroom in Saint Petersburg, I turn down the television and watch two...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Bent Larsen on the Cover and What Is Really Inside 27 MiniaturesIn the summer of 2026, Bent Larsen died in Buenos Aires, taking with him a...
Daniel King's Najdorf Update: 60 Minutes of Theory and the Five Branches Black Must KnowIn a small apartment in Nha Trang, I leave a chessboard under the desk lamp a...
9...a5: Black's Strategic Escape from the Bayonet Attack in the King's Indian Defense9...a5: Black's Strategic Escape from the Bayonet Attack The ninth move on th...
Erdoğmuş, 2,731 and the 2026 Olympiad: The Unverified MedalI opened the Turkish Chess Federation's statement just before eleven at night...
A Chessboard at Fifteen: Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş and the Numbers Still Awaiting VerificationA press release exactly one page long. Eight points from ten games. One line...


