Chess
The Italian Game’s Sharp Fifth Move: A Practical Weapon, Not a Proven Edge
From Scotch Opening to Counter-Repertoire Business: Kasparov's 2026 and Mikhalchishin's Sixty Minutes
The Headline Said FIDE General Assembly, the Board Said Najdorf: A 60-Minute Ledger and a Silent Nation
ChessMom Returns, but the Board Shows 9...a5: Promise vs Proof in the Chess-Theory Market
The FIDE Presidency Claim and the Najdorf Update: Two Different Stories Inside One Article
The Ledger of the Empty Board: The Moves Bangladesh Chess Never Wrote DownLate at night in my Penang flat I opened my laptop to do one small job: pull ...
Chess Analysis Stalls Without Source Material: Why the Original Article Is EssentialChess analysis begins with evidence, not assumptions. The supplied Stage-2...
The Italian Game’s Sharp Fifth Move: A Practical Weapon, Not a Proven EdgeHook When White advances 5.e5! in a familiar Italian Game position, the...
The Void Behind the Board: Data Integrity and the Crisis of Chess ReportingChess is among the oldest intellectual contests known to humanity, yet modern...
Petroff in the Title, Scandinavian in the Blurb: The Ledger of a 60-Minute Lesson That Does Not BalanceOn the night of 12 February 2026, a quarter to midnight, I had a notebook ope...
No Chess Report Can Be Built from an Empty Analysis; Source Verification Comes FirstHook The most dangerous error in chess reporting is not always a bad move....
Five Grandmasters, One Dead Pipeline: Where Bangladesh Chess Hides Its NumberStart with a board in the Dhaka league on 18 December 2026. The clocks were...
Two Crowns, Zero Board Scores: Club Chess, Sponsor Money and the Preparation FileThe headline runs to two lines. Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo are the 2026...
One 2700+ Team Among 108 in Budva: The Gap Between Paper Favourite and Board RealityThe first thing I do with a team sheet from Budva is not savour the drama — I...
Counting Heartbeats in Paltan: The Physiology of Sustained Physical Stress at the Chess BoardTwelve years after the Paltan experiments, a long day of chess produces...
Blockchain on the Chessboard: Grandmasters Cannot Be Bought With TokensBlockchain on the Chessboard: Grandmasters Cannot Be Bought With Tokens One...
Not a Bundesliga Dispute: Andrew Martin's Elephant Gambit Video as Tactical Marketing AnalysisAn article published under the title of a Bundesliga dispute tells a complete...
From Scotch Opening to Counter-Repertoire Business: Kasparov's 2026 and Mikhalchishin's Sixty Minutes"3.d4." The pawns stopped two squares forward in the centre, and the Scotch...
The One Result That Keeps ChessBase Magazine #225 Alive: Liang–Niemann and the Anatomy of a PromotionI learned the press room by counting what no one asked. In 2026, as the only...
One Result, One Advertisement: Liang–Niemann in the Chess-Media LedgerAt dawn on a Saturday the headline slid onto the tablet screen — "Liang beat...
Wednesday Evenings, One Norm, and a New Board in Amsterdam: The Merijn van Delft LedgerWednesday evening in Amsterdam. A laptop open on the table, a camera running,...
The King's Indian 'Antidote' and the Price of Chess KnowledgeThree weeks ago, in a club evening in Saint Petersburg, I watched a young man...
Chess Analysis Stalls Without Source Material: Why the Original Article Is EssentialChess analysis begins with evidence, not assumptions. The supplied Stage-2...
The Italian Game’s Sharp Fifth Move: A Practical Weapon, Not a Proven EdgeHook When White advances 5.e5! in a familiar Italian Game position, the...
The Void Behind the Board: Data Integrity and the Crisis of Chess ReportingChess is among the oldest intellectual contests known to humanity, yet modern...
Petroff in the Title, Scandinavian in the Blurb: The Ledger of a 60-Minute Lesson That Does Not BalanceOn the night of 12 February 2026, a quarter to midnight, I had a notebook ope...
No Chess Report Can Be Built from an Empty Analysis; Source Verification Comes FirstHook The most dangerous error in chess reporting is not always a bad move....
Five Grandmasters, One Dead Pipeline: Where Bangladesh Chess Hides Its NumberStart with a board in the Dhaka league on 18 December 2026. The clocks were...
Two Crowns, Zero Board Scores: Club Chess, Sponsor Money and the Preparation FileThe headline runs to two lines. Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo are the 2026...
One 2700+ Team Among 108 in Budva: The Gap Between Paper Favourite and Board RealityThe first thing I do with a team sheet from Budva is not savour the drama — I...
Counting Heartbeats in Paltan: The Physiology of Sustained Physical Stress at the Chess BoardTwelve years after the Paltan experiments, a long day of chess produces...
Blockchain on the Chessboard: Grandmasters Cannot Be Bought With TokensBlockchain on the Chessboard: Grandmasters Cannot Be Bought With Tokens One...
Not a Bundesliga Dispute: Andrew Martin's Elephant Gambit Video as Tactical Marketing AnalysisAn article published under the title of a Bundesliga dispute tells a complete...
From Scotch Opening to Counter-Repertoire Business: Kasparov's 2026 and Mikhalchishin's Sixty Minutes"3.d4." The pawns stopped two squares forward in the centre, and the Scotch...
The One Result That Keeps ChessBase Magazine #225 Alive: Liang–Niemann and the Anatomy of a PromotionI learned the press room by counting what no one asked. In 2026, as the only...
One Result, One Advertisement: Liang–Niemann in the Chess-Media LedgerAt dawn on a Saturday the headline slid onto the tablet screen — "Liang beat...
Wednesday Evenings, One Norm, and a New Board in Amsterdam: The Merijn van Delft LedgerWednesday evening in Amsterdam. A laptop open on the table, a camera running,...
The King's Indian 'Antidote' and the Price of Chess KnowledgeThree weeks ago, in a club evening in Saint Petersburg, I watched a young man...