Chess
Carlsen on the human ceiling: 15 years at No. 1, five world titles and a 20-fold gap
The 60-Minute Scandinavian Course: One Wrong Headline and Three Unverified Claims
The Strange Comforts of Chess: Why 5.e5 Remains a Talisman for Club Players
Daniel King and the Najdorf Update: When Chess Theory Becomes a Recurring Product
Deep Analysis: Opening Lessons from IM Valeri Lilov's Instructional Video and the Elite Chess Competitive LandscapeIn the international chess world, promotional content for instructional...
Carlsen on the human ceiling: 15 years at No. 1, five world titles and a 20-fold gapGame six in Dubai, December 2026, ran 7 hours 45 minutes and 136 moves. Magnu...
Daniel King and the 60-Minute Najdorf Patch: When an Opening Becomes a Maintenance ContractA headline runs ahead: Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye win the NATO Chess...
European Club Cup 2026 in Budva: Bayegan Pendik's 2715 and the 65–115 Elo gap the team standings never showTwenty past three in Budva, and one number on the pairing board The third...
The 60-Minute Scandinavian Course: One Wrong Headline and Three Unverified ClaimsThe course page opens with an interview with Grandmaster Arturs Neiksans: how...
Total Chess and the Unified Rating Promise: Reading the Budapest 2026 Pilot Through the Data GapOn the morning of August 29, 2026, in Da Nang, I opened a sports feed and...
The King's Second Move: The Elephant Gambit and the War Against Board-Reading HabitsThere is a moment in the tournament hall that I keep rewatching. It is not a...
6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: Record Scale and Information GapsThe 6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners has official...
Pin and Win: The Endgame Master Behind ChampionsThe pin is one of the oldest devices in chess, and one of the hardest to teac...
US Chess Championship: Perfect Scores, Data Gaps, and the Opening-Preparation MarketI still remember a broadcast on VTC when I had to say into the microphone tha...
The Strange Comforts of Chess: Why 5.e5 Remains a Talisman for Club PlayersIn November 2026, in a third-floor playing hall of a chess club on Wuhou...
ChessBase adds Kostya Kavutskiy to FritzTrainer: Reading the signal from two new coursesOn ChessBase's FritzTrainer shelf, every author name is an independent data...
When White Refuses 2.c4: A Defensive Map for Black Against Colle, Trompowsky, Torre and LondonA seventh-round game at an open tournament held in Chengdu in August 2026....
The 3.Bc4 Move in Samarkand: An 11-Year-Old Girl and the Lesson of Reading a NumberSamarkand, September 2026. I sit in a small room in Nha Trang, my computer...
Chess and a Misleading Report: The FIDE President Is Not Timur TurlovChess and a Misleading Report: The FIDE President Is Not Timur Turlov A...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Bent Larsen, Prague 2026, and How a Chess Magazine SurvivesIn Da Nang, I sat in a corner cafe looking out onto Nguyen Chi Thanh Street a...
