Chess
Total Chess Proposes a Unified Rating System: Budapest Opens the Pilot, the Methodology Has Not ArrivedTwelve days, 10 to 21 November 2026, four players at four tables in Budapest:...
The Hour of the Seconds: When a Small Move Trades With Big MemoryIn a training room in Nha Trang, I once watched an 18-year-old boy run 400...
When the First Move Doesn't Match the Remaining Pieces: A 'Review' of an Opening That's Really an Ad PageAn online chess article, published around mid-August 2026, opened with a full...
Atyrau Masters: The Top Two Seeds Fall and the Chess Content Industry Behind a Single HeadlineOn an August morning in Atyrau, the oil city on the Caspian shore of...
The Scandinavian Defense, a 60-Minute Video, and a Misplaced FIDE Headline3 a.m., the screen still glowing in an apartment in Shanghai. I opened a ches...
Pin and Win: Karsten Müller – The Man Who Turned Endgames into StorytellingPin and Win: Karsten Müller – The Man Who Turned Endgames into Storytelling I...
The Scotch Opening and a 35-Year Question: When a 2026 Legend Still Knocks on the Modern BoardInside the studio of a chess content channel, Adrian Mikhalchishin sets up th...
UzChess Cup: Brandon Jacobson Wins Quickly With an Unusual Opening — and a Notable Contradiction Behind ItThe game ended while most online spectators were still rewinding the board to...
Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, Scores 6/7 and a 2504 Performance at the Samarkand 2026 Chess OlympiadIn the ninth row of seats on the east side of the hall, I saw a small hand li...
An 11-Year-Old, the Move 3.Bc4, and a 2504 Performance at the Samarkand 2026 Chess OlympiadAt board one for England's women's team at the Samarkand 2026 Chess Olympiad,...
When chess is called the least expressive sportOn an international sports forum, Naganethra Reddy — a former professional...
Chess and the 'Least Expressive Sport' Charge: The Battle to Win Back the GazeIn a live broadcast of a world chess championship game, the camera cuts to a...
ChessBase Issue 225: Between the Name Bent Larsen and Four Real FacesI remember the evening I sat in a small café in Bangalore, opened the PDF of...
An Hour for the Najdorf: When Chess Memory Becomes an UpdateIn chess, there are moves so small that an outsider looking at them will not...
A 60-Minute Najdorf Update: Daniel King and the Opening-Theory Sales ModelIn Nha Trang, the afternoon settles slowly over the stone tables outside a...
The Coach's Praise and the Gap Between Two Rating ListsOn a September evening in 2026, when the Indian women's team laid their hands...
Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş: 8/10 Undefeated at the 2026 Chess Olympiad and the Data Gap Behind ItWhen the Turkish Chess Federation announced Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş's result at t...
The Carlsen Ghost and a 60-Minute Video: The Scandinavian Defense Under the Data LensOn a winter evening in 2026, still seated in the VTC commentary booth, I...
The 5.e5 Move of the Scotch Gambit: A Weapon for Position-Readers, Not for MemorizersOpening I once misfiled an SHB Đà Nẵng videotape, and from that day I knew...
The Hour of the Seconds: When a Small Move Trades With Big MemoryIn a training room in Nha Trang, I once watched an 18-year-old boy run 400...
When the First Move Doesn't Match the Remaining Pieces: A 'Review' of an Opening That's Really an Ad PageAn online chess article, published around mid-August 2026, opened with a full...
Atyrau Masters: The Top Two Seeds Fall and the Chess Content Industry Behind a Single HeadlineOn an August morning in Atyrau, the oil city on the Caspian shore of...
The Scandinavian Defense, a 60-Minute Video, and a Misplaced FIDE Headline3 a.m., the screen still glowing in an apartment in Shanghai. I opened a ches...
Pin and Win: Karsten Müller – The Man Who Turned Endgames into StorytellingPin and Win: Karsten Müller – The Man Who Turned Endgames into Storytelling I...
The Scotch Opening and a 35-Year Question: When a 2026 Legend Still Knocks on the Modern BoardInside the studio of a chess content channel, Adrian Mikhalchishin sets up th...
UzChess Cup: Brandon Jacobson Wins Quickly With an Unusual Opening — and a Notable Contradiction Behind ItThe game ended while most online spectators were still rewinding the board to...
Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, Scores 6/7 and a 2504 Performance at the Samarkand 2026 Chess OlympiadIn the ninth row of seats on the east side of the hall, I saw a small hand li...
An 11-Year-Old, the Move 3.Bc4, and a 2504 Performance at the Samarkand 2026 Chess OlympiadAt board one for England's women's team at the Samarkand 2026 Chess Olympiad,...
When chess is called the least expressive sportOn an international sports forum, Naganethra Reddy — a former professional...
Chess and the 'Least Expressive Sport' Charge: The Battle to Win Back the GazeIn a live broadcast of a world chess championship game, the camera cuts to a...
ChessBase Issue 225: Between the Name Bent Larsen and Four Real FacesI remember the evening I sat in a small café in Bangalore, opened the PDF of...
An Hour for the Najdorf: When Chess Memory Becomes an UpdateIn chess, there are moves so small that an outsider looking at them will not...
A 60-Minute Najdorf Update: Daniel King and the Opening-Theory Sales ModelIn Nha Trang, the afternoon settles slowly over the stone tables outside a...
The Coach's Praise and the Gap Between Two Rating ListsOn a September evening in 2026, when the Indian women's team laid their hands...
Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş: 8/10 Undefeated at the 2026 Chess Olympiad and the Data Gap Behind ItWhen the Turkish Chess Federation announced Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş's result at t...
The Carlsen Ghost and a 60-Minute Video: The Scandinavian Defense Under the Data LensOn a winter evening in 2026, still seated in the VTC commentary booth, I...
The 5.e5 Move of the Scotch Gambit: A Weapon for Position-Readers, Not for MemorizersOpening I once misfiled an SHB Đà Nẵng videotape, and from that day I knew...

