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ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and a Headline With No Scoresheet Behind It
European Club Cup: The Half-Board Point Hidden Between a 2715 Average and the 'Favourite' Tag
The Silence of 9...a5: When the Engine Goes Quiet in the Mar del Plata
One Headline, No Signed Scoresheet: How a FIDE Presidency Claim Travels Without a Source
The Elephant Gambit: The Chess Opening Engines Call Weak — and Club Players Keep Playing1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5!? — an opening no engine likes. While Budva was hosting the...
Before Budapest: Total Chess's 'Fast Classic' Experiment and India's AbsenceThere is no arena like Chennai's Nehru Indoor Stadium, but an empty hall echo...
Scandinavian Defense: Learn in 60 Minutes or Just an Ad? An Opening Sold on Carlsen's NameLast week at a Moscow club I saw the same scene I have witnessed hundreds of...
Carlsen's Bet: A $20 Million Anchor, a Stamina Admission at 35, and Budapest's First ExperimentLast week, VnExpress published a Vietnamese translation of an AS/Marca...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and a Headline With No Scoresheet Behind ItI read the first line of issue 225 three times. The headline says: European...
Total Chess's Budapest Pilot: A 'Unified Rating' Headline With No Rating in the BodyI count before I write. That habit is forty years old and it has never once l...
European Club Cup: The Half-Board Point Hidden Between a 2715 Average and the 'Favourite' TagAfter the second round of the European Club Cup, there is a number on the...
European Club Cup: A 2715 Average Buys You Half a Board PointRound two closed with 25 of 108 open teams sitting on 2/2, and the headline...
The Silence of 9...a5: When the Engine Goes Quiet in the Mar del PlataAt one in the morning the screen held the same old King's Indian question —...
One Headline, No Signed Scoresheet: How a FIDE Presidency Claim Travels Without a SourceAt 1:47 a.m. in a one-bedroom flat in Indiranagar, Bengaluru, a headline ligh...
Is Total Chess's 'Unified Rating System' Just Brilliant Marketing? The Real Story of the Budapest PilotIt was nine in the morning in a Budapest hotel corridor when I first heard th...
A Budva Headline With No Body: The Elephant Gambit and the Seam Between Chess News and Chess CommerceAt three in the morning, on a table in a Matunga flat, an old mechanical ches...
European Club Cup: The 2715 Average, the 3.5 Threshold, and a Half-Board-Point MarginOn the morning of 19 October 2026 my desk in Chicago held three things: cold...
Sixty Minutes, One Uncited Carlsen, One Missing Interview: Three Measurements of the Scandinavian Defense PackageSix-forty in the morning in Chicago. The tea has gone cold. A page opens on t...
The Hour of the Seconds: 9...a5 in the Mar del Plata, and a 'Cure' for the Bayonet That Won't Show Its WorkingThe ceiling fan on the first floor of that old Lansdowne building turned...
Carlsen's Claim: AI Has Shown Humans Are Not As Great As We ThoughtJust before the first World Open Chess Championship in Budapest, running...
The Total Chess Budapest Pilot: Four Names, Three Formats, and a Rating Claim the Body Never SupportsIf you read chess news by the headline, the release dated 29 August 2026 will...
Can Total Chess's 'Fast Classic' Rewrite the Rating System? The Question the Budapest Pilot Headline Never AskedIn an 11-day window in Budapest there are four names — Carlsen, Caruana,...
Endgame in the Headline, 5.e5 in the Body: Auditing 'Endgame Magic #340' and the Bodhana Sivanandan BillingLast week I opened a numbered instructional file: 'Endgame Magic #340: Three...
Scandinavian Defense: Learn in 60 Minutes, But Does Carlsen's Name Really Help?Sitting in Saint Petersburg, watching this promotional video, an old memory...
The Italian Game's 5.e5 Branch: Where the Club Player Gains, and Where He Gets TrappedOn a Monday afternoon, in a club tournament hall, I watched a 2026-rated play...
The Elephant Gambit: The 60-Minute Repertoire DVD Hidden Behind Budva's HeadlinesThe headlines announcing the European Club Cup's start in Budva sat at the ve...
A Budva Headline and a 60-Minute Elephant Gambit: One Page, Two Content Objects, Thirteen Information PointsBudva. European Club Cup. The headline sets an expectation: scores, lineups,...
The 9...a5 'Antidote' to the Bayonet Attack: A King's Indian Sideline Whose Bill Is Paid by the ClockAround eleven at night in an Andheri chess club last month, a 2,040-rated...
King's Indian Mar del Plata: 9...a5 Is an Equalizing Sideline, Not an Antidote to the Bayonet AttackRound eight of a weekend Swiss in Chicago. The clock on board four read one...
Before Budapest: Total Chess's 'Fast Classic' Experiment and India's AbsenceThere is no arena like Chennai's Nehru Indoor Stadium, but an empty hall echo...
Scandinavian Defense: Learn in 60 Minutes or Just an Ad? An Opening Sold on Carlsen's NameLast week at a Moscow club I saw the same scene I have witnessed hundreds of...
Carlsen's Bet: A $20 Million Anchor, a Stamina Admission at 35, and Budapest's First ExperimentLast week, VnExpress published a Vietnamese translation of an AS/Marca...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and a Headline With No Scoresheet Behind ItI read the first line of issue 225 three times. The headline says: European...
Total Chess's Budapest Pilot: A 'Unified Rating' Headline With No Rating in the BodyI count before I write. That habit is forty years old and it has never once l...
European Club Cup: The Half-Board Point Hidden Between a 2715 Average and the 'Favourite' TagAfter the second round of the European Club Cup, there is a number on the...
European Club Cup: A 2715 Average Buys You Half a Board PointRound two closed with 25 of 108 open teams sitting on 2/2, and the headline...
The Silence of 9...a5: When the Engine Goes Quiet in the Mar del PlataAt one in the morning the screen held the same old King's Indian question —...
One Headline, No Signed Scoresheet: How a FIDE Presidency Claim Travels Without a SourceAt 1:47 a.m. in a one-bedroom flat in Indiranagar, Bengaluru, a headline ligh...
Is Total Chess's 'Unified Rating System' Just Brilliant Marketing? The Real Story of the Budapest PilotIt was nine in the morning in a Budapest hotel corridor when I first heard th...
A Budva Headline With No Body: The Elephant Gambit and the Seam Between Chess News and Chess CommerceAt three in the morning, on a table in a Matunga flat, an old mechanical ches...
European Club Cup: The 2715 Average, the 3.5 Threshold, and a Half-Board-Point MarginOn the morning of 19 October 2026 my desk in Chicago held three things: cold...
Sixty Minutes, One Uncited Carlsen, One Missing Interview: Three Measurements of the Scandinavian Defense PackageSix-forty in the morning in Chicago. The tea has gone cold. A page opens on t...
The Hour of the Seconds: 9...a5 in the Mar del Plata, and a 'Cure' for the Bayonet That Won't Show Its WorkingThe ceiling fan on the first floor of that old Lansdowne building turned...
Carlsen's Claim: AI Has Shown Humans Are Not As Great As We ThoughtJust before the first World Open Chess Championship in Budapest, running...
The Total Chess Budapest Pilot: Four Names, Three Formats, and a Rating Claim the Body Never SupportsIf you read chess news by the headline, the release dated 29 August 2026 will...
Can Total Chess's 'Fast Classic' Rewrite the Rating System? The Question the Budapest Pilot Headline Never AskedIn an 11-day window in Budapest there are four names — Carlsen, Caruana,...
Endgame in the Headline, 5.e5 in the Body: Auditing 'Endgame Magic #340' and the Bodhana Sivanandan BillingLast week I opened a numbered instructional file: 'Endgame Magic #340: Three...
Scandinavian Defense: Learn in 60 Minutes, But Does Carlsen's Name Really Help?Sitting in Saint Petersburg, watching this promotional video, an old memory...
The Italian Game's 5.e5 Branch: Where the Club Player Gains, and Where He Gets TrappedOn a Monday afternoon, in a club tournament hall, I watched a 2026-rated play...
The Elephant Gambit: The 60-Minute Repertoire DVD Hidden Behind Budva's HeadlinesThe headlines announcing the European Club Cup's start in Budva sat at the ve...
A Budva Headline and a 60-Minute Elephant Gambit: One Page, Two Content Objects, Thirteen Information PointsBudva. European Club Cup. The headline sets an expectation: scores, lineups,...
The 9...a5 'Antidote' to the Bayonet Attack: A King's Indian Sideline Whose Bill Is Paid by the ClockAround eleven at night in an Andheri chess club last month, a 2,040-rated...
King's Indian Mar del Plata: 9...a5 Is an Equalizing Sideline, Not an Antidote to the Bayonet AttackRound eight of a weekend Swiss in Chicago. The clock on board four read one...