Chess
Chess9...a5 and the Calculated Retreat of the King's Indian DefenceThe third game of the Thursday evening club session in Da Nang: White pushed...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: Three Co-Leaders and a Title Decided on Boards 3–4The final-round pairing sheet goes up on the wall before the playing hall...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: Novy Bor and SuperChess Need a Scoreboard, Not a Perfect HeadlineOn a chess news page, the headline European Club Cup: Novy Bor and SuperChess...
ChessMagnus Carlsen: AI Has Levelled the Field, and Humans Are Not That Good at ChessThe clock ticks past the fifth hour, and Magnus Carlsen realises his body no...
ChessA headline with the wrong FIDE title, and a lesson on trust in chess mediaThat night, I read a headline at two in the morning. On the phone screen, a...
ChessThe Headline Says Vahap Sanal; the Body Says Najdorf11:47 p.m. I reopen a video file that runs exactly sixty minutes. No crowd...
ChessModern Italian 5.e5!: Three Critical Replies, One Engine Gap, and What a 60-Minute Video Product Gets Wrong1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.e5! — five moves in, Black is a pawn ...
ChessBenko Gambit, FRITZ 20 and the Data Void Between Headline and BodyThe product introduction I just read runs over a thousand words, carries a...
ChessAtyrau Masters 2026: Top Two Seeds Fall in the Opening Rounds and the Echo from an Emerging Chess HubApril 2026. The city of Atyrau, in western Kazakhstan, where the Ural River...
Chess6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: 140 Teams and the Map of Gaps Behind a Single Line of NewsIn some prison cell, a chess clock starts counting. There are no stands, no...
ChessDeep Professional Analysis: Karsten Müller and the Endgame Training Niche in the Engine EraIn the professional chess world, there are names that are not associated with...
ChessYu Yangyi Defeats Ding Liren: Shocking Shenzhen Masters Victory and the Hidden Angles That Need VerificationIn the international chess world, matches between top players always attract...
ChessWhen Chess Buys Back Its Storytellers: ChessBase, Kostya Kavutskiy, and a Market That No Longer Revolves Around the GameOn the red plastic stool at the Phan Dinh Phung sports hall, on a Da Nang...
ChessKostya Kavutskiy Joins ChessBase: Two Courses and the Chess Content RaceIt was a September afternoon, and I was sitting in front of a screen in my...
ChessLiang Beats Niemann in Round 1: A News Headline, a Selling MachineAwonder Liang beat Hans Niemann in the first round of the US Chess...
ChessBodhana Sivanandan and the 3.Bc4 Move: When Board One Belongs to an Eleven-Year-OldSamarkand, September 24, 2026. The chess Olympiad hall was so quiet that I...
ChessThe 3.Bc4 Move in Samarkand: An 11-Year-Old, a 2504 Scoreline, and How to Read a Small SampleLate at night in Samarkand, the chess hall held nothing but the sound of piec...
ChessIs Chess 'the Least Expressive Sport'? The Spectator Debate Seen from the BoardIn late August 2026, a remark that seemed minor spread quickly through...
ChessThe Modern Italian Game: The 5.e5! Push and the Pawn-for-Space GambleThe Modern Italian Game: The 5.e5! Push and the Pawn-for-Space Gamble 1. A mo...
