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Rachel Li, the US Women's Chess Championship and 60 Minutes of Scandinavian Defense AdvertisingAt one in the morning in Shanghai I was sitting on the living-room floor, eye...
9...a5 in the King's Indian Defence: A Practical Option Nobody Has VerifiedBoard four, Chengdu Open, March 2026. The young player handling Black had 38...
The Scotch Opening: How Kasparov Revived a Forgotten Move and the Defensive Problem for BlackOn a chessboard in New York in 2026, a move that seemed to have fallen asleep...
Deep Analysis: IM Andrew Martin's Scandinavian Defense Instructional Video and the Hidden Issues Behind a Misleading HeadlineIn the international chess world, opening instructional products play a cruci...
9...a5 and the Revolt Against the Machine: When Opening Theory Becomes a Product for the WearyChiang Mai, a late April evening. In a room lit only by the blue glow of a...
The Scotch Opening: The Forgotten Move, Kasparov's Weapon, and Mikhalchishin's Practical SolutionIn the autumn of 2026, in Lyon, the sixteenth game of the World Championship...
The Empty Dossier of Vietnamese Sport: Data Left Behind, Rumours Filled InJanuary 2026. On the turf of Rajamangala in Bangkok, Nguyen Xuan Son lay on h...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Samarkand 15/16 Headline and the Grey Zone Between Chess News and CommerceIn a small cafe in Bengaluru, I opened the product page for ChessBase Magazin...
Savitha Shri's 7/7 at the Olympiad: the reserve board, the dead-drawn endgame and the art of sitting fifteen minutes longerOne eye rub. Nothing more. The electronic clock on board four ticked past the...
Nihal Sarin and the Paradox of Courage: When Defeat Is CelebratedWith thirty minutes left on the clock, the engine showed +2. With the black...
Three Moves That Cost a Crown: Nihal Sarin and India's Psychological Management at the Chess OlympiadAt some point in the game, Nihal Sarin's clock showed 30 minutes remaining...
The Scotch Opening, 25 Years After Kasparov: Mikhalchishin's 60-Minute Guide to a Neutralised WeaponMidnight in Binh Duong. I replayed the tape of a 2026 game in New York and...
Eight Leaders at Samarkand Round 4: The Games, the Scoreboard, and the Hand That Writes the StoryIn Samarkand, when round four ended, the board in the hall showed eight names...
5.e5! – The Move Jobava Used to Redraw the Italian GameI watched that game on a quiet evening, sound off, with only the faint knock ...
After Round Four in Samarkand: Eight Leaders and the Shadow of CommerceI came to the standing of the Samarkand Open after round four with a strange...
5.e5! and the Samarkand Game: Decoding Baadur Jobava's Italian Gambit WeaponOn an October evening in Da Nang, with the computer screen the only source of...
Gukesh Chooses Board 4 at the Chess Olympiad: The World Champion and an Unverified SacrificeIn two consecutive rounds in Samarkand, Gukesh Dommaraju played Black. In the...
Gukesh Volunteers for Board 4: When a World Champion Learns to Step BackThe night before Round 3 of the 2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekistan,...
The Bayonet Attack and 9...a5: A Chess Product's Strategic Promise Without a Single Supporting GameThe Bayonet Attack and 9...a5: A Chess Product's Strategic Promise Without a...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: A Chess Antidote, or a Secondary Line Repackaged?The question I ask never sounds like a woman's question, but the way they dod...
Nine 4-0 Wins in Samarkand and an Engine Ad: When Women's Chess Results Get Diluted"Nine of the top ten teams won 4-0 in the opening round." It reads like a...
Samarkand, Hong Kong, and Two Headwind Days of Rapid ChessLate at night in Saint Petersburg, wind slipped through the window from the...
Chess: When Deep Squads Outplay Solo SuperstarsI rewind the footage from Day 2 of the FIDE World Team Rapid Championship in...
46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand: India Defends Double Gold at the Largest Edition in HistoryAt 4:30 in the morning in Nha Trang, I was still in front of a screen with a...
46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand: 208 Teams and the Arithmetic of Match Points“Ninety minutes for the first 40 moves, then 30 minutes for the rest of the...
46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand: India Defends a Double Gold Against a Record 208 TeamsIn a technical room on the east wing of the Silk Road International Exhibitio...
Indian Chess Enters Its Transfer Window: Agent Noise and the Real Price of a Board 1 SlotIn September 2026, in Budapest, India won gold in both the open and women's...
9...a5 and the Bayonet Attack: Auditing an 'Antidote' Promise in the King's Indian DefenceA night unlike any other, a spreadsheet like every spreadsheet Last Tuesday...
After Olympiad Gold, India's Open Question: Are Divya Deshmukh and Vaishali Really Stronger?Inside a chess Olympiad playing hall, there is a moment I always rewind when...
9...a5 in the King's Indian Defence: A Practical Option Nobody Has VerifiedBoard four, Chengdu Open, March 2026. The young player handling Black had 38...
The Scotch Opening: How Kasparov Revived a Forgotten Move and the Defensive Problem for BlackOn a chessboard in New York in 2026, a move that seemed to have fallen asleep...
Deep Analysis: IM Andrew Martin's Scandinavian Defense Instructional Video and the Hidden Issues Behind a Misleading HeadlineIn the international chess world, opening instructional products play a cruci...
9...a5 and the Revolt Against the Machine: When Opening Theory Becomes a Product for the WearyChiang Mai, a late April evening. In a room lit only by the blue glow of a...
The Scotch Opening: The Forgotten Move, Kasparov's Weapon, and Mikhalchishin's Practical SolutionIn the autumn of 2026, in Lyon, the sixteenth game of the World Championship...
The Empty Dossier of Vietnamese Sport: Data Left Behind, Rumours Filled InJanuary 2026. On the turf of Rajamangala in Bangkok, Nguyen Xuan Son lay on h...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Samarkand 15/16 Headline and the Grey Zone Between Chess News and CommerceIn a small cafe in Bengaluru, I opened the product page for ChessBase Magazin...
Savitha Shri's 7/7 at the Olympiad: the reserve board, the dead-drawn endgame and the art of sitting fifteen minutes longerOne eye rub. Nothing more. The electronic clock on board four ticked past the...
Nihal Sarin and the Paradox of Courage: When Defeat Is CelebratedWith thirty minutes left on the clock, the engine showed +2. With the black...
Three Moves That Cost a Crown: Nihal Sarin and India's Psychological Management at the Chess OlympiadAt some point in the game, Nihal Sarin's clock showed 30 minutes remaining...
The Scotch Opening, 25 Years After Kasparov: Mikhalchishin's 60-Minute Guide to a Neutralised WeaponMidnight in Binh Duong. I replayed the tape of a 2026 game in New York and...
Eight Leaders at Samarkand Round 4: The Games, the Scoreboard, and the Hand That Writes the StoryIn Samarkand, when round four ended, the board in the hall showed eight names...
5.e5! – The Move Jobava Used to Redraw the Italian GameI watched that game on a quiet evening, sound off, with only the faint knock ...
After Round Four in Samarkand: Eight Leaders and the Shadow of CommerceI came to the standing of the Samarkand Open after round four with a strange...
5.e5! and the Samarkand Game: Decoding Baadur Jobava's Italian Gambit WeaponOn an October evening in Da Nang, with the computer screen the only source of...
Gukesh Chooses Board 4 at the Chess Olympiad: The World Champion and an Unverified SacrificeIn two consecutive rounds in Samarkand, Gukesh Dommaraju played Black. In the...
Gukesh Volunteers for Board 4: When a World Champion Learns to Step BackThe night before Round 3 of the 2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekistan,...
The Bayonet Attack and 9...a5: A Chess Product's Strategic Promise Without a Single Supporting GameThe Bayonet Attack and 9...a5: A Chess Product's Strategic Promise Without a...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: A Chess Antidote, or a Secondary Line Repackaged?The question I ask never sounds like a woman's question, but the way they dod...
Nine 4-0 Wins in Samarkand and an Engine Ad: When Women's Chess Results Get Diluted"Nine of the top ten teams won 4-0 in the opening round." It reads like a...
Samarkand, Hong Kong, and Two Headwind Days of Rapid ChessLate at night in Saint Petersburg, wind slipped through the window from the...
Chess: When Deep Squads Outplay Solo SuperstarsI rewind the footage from Day 2 of the FIDE World Team Rapid Championship in...
46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand: India Defends Double Gold at the Largest Edition in HistoryAt 4:30 in the morning in Nha Trang, I was still in front of a screen with a...
46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand: 208 Teams and the Arithmetic of Match Points“Ninety minutes for the first 40 moves, then 30 minutes for the rest of the...
46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand: India Defends a Double Gold Against a Record 208 TeamsIn a technical room on the east wing of the Silk Road International Exhibitio...
Indian Chess Enters Its Transfer Window: Agent Noise and the Real Price of a Board 1 SlotIn September 2026, in Budapest, India won gold in both the open and women's...
9...a5 and the Bayonet Attack: Auditing an 'Antidote' Promise in the King's Indian DefenceA night unlike any other, a spreadsheet like every spreadsheet Last Tuesday...
After Olympiad Gold, India's Open Question: Are Divya Deshmukh and Vaishali Really Stronger?Inside a chess Olympiad playing hall, there is a moment I always rewind when...
