Chess
Clutch Chess in Saint Louis: Four Names in the Headline, Eight Opening Systems in the BodyI opened the Clutch Chess broadcast from Saint Louis with a very narrow...
Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo Crowned 2026 European Club Cup Champions: The News That Slips Between the Era of Press ReleasesThe 2026 European Club Cup closed with two champions named: Bayegan Pendik an...
Two Words Left Out of Carlsen's Remark About AITwo words sit in the middle of Magnus Carlsen's interview with AS on 21...
FRITZ 20 and the 'Fake Chess' Performance on the Data BoardA headline appeared on chess news sites: 'FIDE President Timur Turlov meets...
Total Chess launches Budapest pilot: the unified rating system still has no formulaBudapest, 10 to 21 November 2026. Four players. Three formats. Twelve days of...
Modern Italian 5 e5!: Three Replies and the One-to-Three-Season Lifespan of an Opening TrapThree moves. The entire defensive bank available to Black after the thrust 5...
Sipke Ernst's 'Modern' Benko Gambit: A Review With No Moves In ItAt 1:47 a.m. Delhi time, a link arrived from a chess group in Chennai with a...
The Move Nobody Watched: When an Opening Book Is Sold by a MachineThere is a moment in the chess world I always record in my notebook: when a...
The Waiting Move and the Sigh on an Empty Stand: The Benko Gambit Under the Light of a Changing IndustryWithin the product analysis of GM Sipke Ernst's Benko Gambit repertoire, ther...
The Move of a Number: Beyond the Benko Board and the Repricing WarIn the archives of a chess club in Shanghai, I found a product advertisement...
Dortmund Sparkassen 2027 and the Scandinavian Defense Gamble: When a Course Sales Page Wears the Mask of Chess NewsThe page title read "Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027". I read it three times....
The 9...a5 move and the Bayonet problem: a practical answer for the King's IndianIn March 2026, at an open tournament in Da Nang, I sat behind one of my...
Woodward Beats Caruana at the US Championships: A New Generation Knocks, and the Headline Tells Another StoryIn a small apartment in Binh Duong, I reopened the results page of the US Che...
Karsten Müller and the Authority-Conversion Playbook in Chess Endgame TrainingOn a product introduction page, the headline reads "Pin and win." That is the...
Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo Crowned 2026 European Club Cup Champions: The News That Slips Between the Era of Press ReleasesThe 2026 European Club Cup closed with two champions named: Bayegan Pendik an...
Two Words Left Out of Carlsen's Remark About AITwo words sit in the middle of Magnus Carlsen's interview with AS on 21...
FRITZ 20 and the 'Fake Chess' Performance on the Data BoardA headline appeared on chess news sites: 'FIDE President Timur Turlov meets...
Total Chess launches Budapest pilot: the unified rating system still has no formulaBudapest, 10 to 21 November 2026. Four players. Three formats. Twelve days of...
Modern Italian 5 e5!: Three Replies and the One-to-Three-Season Lifespan of an Opening TrapThree moves. The entire defensive bank available to Black after the thrust 5...
Sipke Ernst's 'Modern' Benko Gambit: A Review With No Moves In ItAt 1:47 a.m. Delhi time, a link arrived from a chess group in Chennai with a...
The Move Nobody Watched: When an Opening Book Is Sold by a MachineThere is a moment in the chess world I always record in my notebook: when a...
The Waiting Move and the Sigh on an Empty Stand: The Benko Gambit Under the Light of a Changing IndustryWithin the product analysis of GM Sipke Ernst's Benko Gambit repertoire, ther...
The Move of a Number: Beyond the Benko Board and the Repricing WarIn the archives of a chess club in Shanghai, I found a product advertisement...
Dortmund Sparkassen 2027 and the Scandinavian Defense Gamble: When a Course Sales Page Wears the Mask of Chess NewsThe page title read "Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027". I read it three times....
The 9...a5 move and the Bayonet problem: a practical answer for the King's IndianIn March 2026, at an open tournament in Da Nang, I sat behind one of my...
Woodward Beats Caruana at the US Championships: A New Generation Knocks, and the Headline Tells Another StoryIn a small apartment in Binh Duong, I reopened the results page of the US Che...
Karsten Müller and the Authority-Conversion Playbook in Chess Endgame TrainingOn a product introduction page, the headline reads "Pin and win." That is the...


