Chess
The Forgotten Move: When the Elephant Gambit Becomes an Echo in the Empty Stands
The Scotch Opening: How Kasparov in 2026 Revived a Forgotten Line
Karsten Müller: The Guardian of the Endgame in the Computer Age
The Silent Move: When a Scandinavian Pawn Retells Carlsen's Dream
The 7.b3 Move at the UzChess Cup: When a Tiny Pawn Challenges All Opening Theory
Wesley So and a fourth US Chess Championship: the tiebreak named the champion, the games disappearedIn the report I read that morning, Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in a tiebre...
Bodhana Sivanandan's IM Milestone: 11 Years, 7 Months, 16 Days and Judit Polgar's 38-Year RecordIn Budva, the clock on board one stopped after 32 moves. In Nha Trang, I sat ...
Wesley So and the Empty Tiebreak Line: When a Fourth Title Is Decided by a Short WindowOn the scoreboard, the line “Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks” rea...
Carlsen says AI has levelled the field, and at 35 he has to win fasterIn the interview published on 21 October by AS and relayed by Marca, Magnus...
FIDE and Chess Software: When a False Headline Leads a Promotional ArticleIn more than forty years sitting at the chessboard, I have learned one simple...
The Forgotten Opening: Andrew Martin and the Elephant Gambit Made SimpleOn my desk sits a notebook with a worn spine from 2026, where I mark in blue...
The Board Without an Audience: When Vietnam's Chess Champion Relearns How to LoseIn the last four rounds of the 2026 National Chess Championship in Da Nang, h...
The Forgotten Move: When the Elephant Gambit Becomes an Echo in the Empty StandsIn a small coffee shop on Le Loi Street, Saigon, among chessboards lying sile...
Decoding the Scandinavian Defense promo page: 60 minutes of study, a Carlsen claim, and a Dortmund 2027 headline that does not fitEleven at night in Moscow, the snow had stopped two hours earlier, and I open...
US Chess Championships: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and the Lesson of a Headline That Does Not Match the BodyI read the headline on a Saturday morning, while Mumbai was still hazy and my...
The Scotch Opening: How Kasparov in 2026 Revived a Forgotten LineIn the summer of 2026, Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov sat across from each...
Karsten Müller: The Guardian of the Endgame in the Computer AgeIn chess there is a motif called the pin — a piece frozen in place because...
The d5 on Move Two: A Forgotten Gambit and an Echo from the BundesligaWinter 2026 in Russia taught me that the biggest moment of a match usually...
The Silent Move: When a Scandinavian Pawn Retells Carlsen's DreamOn a weekend afternoon, I stayed behind at the chess club on Nguyen Thai Hoc...
The Scandinavian Defense: The Space Map of a System Sold by Carlsen's ShadowIntroduction: Sixty Minutes and a Promise About Time "60 minutes, learn it an...
The Strange Comforts of Superstition in Chess: When 5.e5 Becomes the Club Player's TalismanIn March 2026, at a rapid chess tournament held in a university hall in...
London, Colle, Trompowsky, Torre: When White Quietly Abandons the Theory WarLondon, Colle, Trompowsky, Torre: When White Quietly Abandons the Theory War ...
The 5.e5 Move and the Strange Comforts of Superstition in Club ChessOn a Saturday evening, in a small chess café on Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai Street, ...
Liang beats Niemann in Round 1 of the US Chess Championship: behind the headline lies a sales pageThe game between Awonder Liang and Hans Niemann in Round 1 of the US Chess...
When a UzChess Cup Game Goes by Two Different Opening NamesI watched Robert Ris's "Fast and Furious" episode on a late June evening, rig...
When the Teacher Takes the Throne: ChessBase, Kostya Kavutskiy and the Quiet Shift of the Chess WorldThere is a sound I have never forgotten across eleven years of watching the...
The 7.b3 Move at the UzChess Cup: When a Tiny Pawn Challenges All Opening TheoryInside an empty playing hall at the UzChess Cup, there was a move the cameras...
Bodhana Sivanandan's IM Milestone: 11 Years, 7 Months, 16 Days and Judit Polgar's 38-Year RecordIn Budva, the clock on board one stopped after 32 moves. In Nha Trang, I sat ...
Wesley So and the Empty Tiebreak Line: When a Fourth Title Is Decided by a Short WindowOn the scoreboard, the line “Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks” rea...
Carlsen says AI has levelled the field, and at 35 he has to win fasterIn the interview published on 21 October by AS and relayed by Marca, Magnus...
FIDE and Chess Software: When a False Headline Leads a Promotional ArticleIn more than forty years sitting at the chessboard, I have learned one simple...
The Forgotten Opening: Andrew Martin and the Elephant Gambit Made SimpleOn my desk sits a notebook with a worn spine from 2026, where I mark in blue...
The Board Without an Audience: When Vietnam's Chess Champion Relearns How to LoseIn the last four rounds of the 2026 National Chess Championship in Da Nang, h...
The Forgotten Move: When the Elephant Gambit Becomes an Echo in the Empty StandsIn a small coffee shop on Le Loi Street, Saigon, among chessboards lying sile...
Decoding the Scandinavian Defense promo page: 60 minutes of study, a Carlsen claim, and a Dortmund 2027 headline that does not fitEleven at night in Moscow, the snow had stopped two hours earlier, and I open...
US Chess Championships: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and the Lesson of a Headline That Does Not Match the BodyI read the headline on a Saturday morning, while Mumbai was still hazy and my...
The Scotch Opening: How Kasparov in 2026 Revived a Forgotten LineIn the summer of 2026, Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov sat across from each...
Karsten Müller: The Guardian of the Endgame in the Computer AgeIn chess there is a motif called the pin — a piece frozen in place because...
The d5 on Move Two: A Forgotten Gambit and an Echo from the BundesligaWinter 2026 in Russia taught me that the biggest moment of a match usually...
The Silent Move: When a Scandinavian Pawn Retells Carlsen's DreamOn a weekend afternoon, I stayed behind at the chess club on Nguyen Thai Hoc...
The Scandinavian Defense: The Space Map of a System Sold by Carlsen's ShadowIntroduction: Sixty Minutes and a Promise About Time "60 minutes, learn it an...
The Strange Comforts of Superstition in Chess: When 5.e5 Becomes the Club Player's TalismanIn March 2026, at a rapid chess tournament held in a university hall in...
London, Colle, Trompowsky, Torre: When White Quietly Abandons the Theory WarLondon, Colle, Trompowsky, Torre: When White Quietly Abandons the Theory War ...
The 5.e5 Move and the Strange Comforts of Superstition in Club ChessOn a Saturday evening, in a small chess café on Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai Street, ...
Liang beats Niemann in Round 1 of the US Chess Championship: behind the headline lies a sales pageThe game between Awonder Liang and Hans Niemann in Round 1 of the US Chess...
When a UzChess Cup Game Goes by Two Different Opening NamesI watched Robert Ris's "Fast and Furious" episode on a late June evening, rig...
When the Teacher Takes the Throne: ChessBase, Kostya Kavutskiy and the Quiet Shift of the Chess WorldThere is a sound I have never forgotten across eleven years of watching the...
The 7.b3 Move at the UzChess Cup: When a Tiny Pawn Challenges All Opening TheoryInside an empty playing hall at the UzChess Cup, there was a move the cameras...