Chess
ChessBodhana Sivanandan: Eleven, Three IM Norms in Three Months, and a 38-Year Record Gone2026-10-25In a box of belongings a family friend left behind before flying back to Indi...
ChessCarlsen Says AI Has Levelled the Field: 15 Years at No. 1, a 35-Year-Old Body, and the 1 Million to 20 Million USD Gap2026-10-22In the autumn of 2026, when the global calendar froze, I sat in front of a...
ChessDaniel King's Sixty-Minute Patch and the Craft of Repertoire Maintenance2026-10-21There is a video file exactly sixty minutes long, in English, without...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: The 2715 Average Rating and the Board-Order Problem in Budva2026-10-21Round two has closed in Budva, and the European Club Cup standings unfold int...
ChessThe 1...d5 Move, the 60-Minute Course and a Headline Put in the Wrong Place2026-10-20On a Saturday night, in a small chess club at the end of Lach Tray Street in...
Svitlana and 9...a5: An 'Antidote' Sold on Trust, Not Data23:12, board four, a chess club in Hai Phong. Hung, 52, pushes his knight to ...
King's Indian: 9...a5, the Few-Lines Promise and the Capablanca CoverThe DVD sat in a worn cardboard sleeve. I opened it in my small flat on...
Bodhana Sivanandan: Eleven, Three IM Norms in Three Months, and a 38-Year Record GoneIn a box of belongings a family friend left behind before flying back to Indi...
77 Chess Teams Behind Bars: A Tournament Without Elo and Unpublished GamesIn a room where phones are taken away before anyone is allowed to sit at the...
European Club Cup 2026: A Standings Table That Contradicts Itself, and a Title Decided on Board FourOn the evening of 20 October, I stood in front of the standings board in the...
Carlsen, AI and the 20-fold gap between the chess crown and the marketAt 22:40 in Budapest, the game entered its fifth hour. I sat in the third row...
Carlsen Says AI Has Levelled the Field: 15 Years at No. 1, a 35-Year-Old Body, and the 1 Million to 20 Million USD GapIn the autumn of 2026, when the global calendar froze, I sat in front of a...
FIDE and the Side Story: When Chess Software Is Marketed With a Name in the Wrong PlaceThere are chess articles that make professionals stop at the headline. Not...
Daniel King's Sixty-Minute Patch and the Craft of Repertoire MaintenanceThere is a video file exactly sixty minutes long, in English, without...
Bayegan Pendik in Budva: 2715 Elo and the 65-Point Gap That Decides the European Club CupTuesday morning in Budva, and the Adriatic-side hall opens at half past six. ...
European Club Cup: The 2715 Average Rating and the Board-Order Problem in BudvaRound two has closed in Budva, and the European Club Cup standings unfold int...
The 1...d5 Move, the 60-Minute Course and a Headline Put in the Wrong PlaceOn a Saturday night, in a small chess club at the end of Lach Tray Street in...
European Club Cup 2026: Bayegan Pendik hold a 65 to 115 Elo point edge per board over the chasing groupIn Budva, some forty minutes before the third round begins, a small ritual...
Total Chess Pitches a Unified Rating System: Four Names, Three Formats and a Body Not Yet WrittenOn 29 August 2026, a press item shorter than a single page went out with a...
A King's Indian DVD and the Real Price of a Surprise MoveLast weekend, in a chess club on the second floor of an old market building i...
9...a5: When a Rare Move Becomes the Antidote to Preparation AnxietyThere is a moment at the board that no camera captures: the player with the...
King's Indian: 9...a5, the Few-Lines Promise and the Capablanca CoverThe DVD sat in a worn cardboard sleeve. I opened it in my small flat on...
Bodhana Sivanandan: Eleven, Three IM Norms in Three Months, and a 38-Year Record GoneIn a box of belongings a family friend left behind before flying back to Indi...
77 Chess Teams Behind Bars: A Tournament Without Elo and Unpublished GamesIn a room where phones are taken away before anyone is allowed to sit at the...
European Club Cup 2026: A Standings Table That Contradicts Itself, and a Title Decided on Board FourOn the evening of 20 October, I stood in front of the standings board in the...
Carlsen, AI and the 20-fold gap between the chess crown and the marketAt 22:40 in Budapest, the game entered its fifth hour. I sat in the third row...
Carlsen Says AI Has Levelled the Field: 15 Years at No. 1, a 35-Year-Old Body, and the 1 Million to 20 Million USD GapIn the autumn of 2026, when the global calendar froze, I sat in front of a...
FIDE and the Side Story: When Chess Software Is Marketed With a Name in the Wrong PlaceThere are chess articles that make professionals stop at the headline. Not...
Daniel King's Sixty-Minute Patch and the Craft of Repertoire MaintenanceThere is a video file exactly sixty minutes long, in English, without...
Bayegan Pendik in Budva: 2715 Elo and the 65-Point Gap That Decides the European Club CupTuesday morning in Budva, and the Adriatic-side hall opens at half past six. ...
European Club Cup: The 2715 Average Rating and the Board-Order Problem in BudvaRound two has closed in Budva, and the European Club Cup standings unfold int...
The 1...d5 Move, the 60-Minute Course and a Headline Put in the Wrong PlaceOn a Saturday night, in a small chess club at the end of Lach Tray Street in...
European Club Cup 2026: Bayegan Pendik hold a 65 to 115 Elo point edge per board over the chasing groupIn Budva, some forty minutes before the third round begins, a small ritual...
Total Chess Pitches a Unified Rating System: Four Names, Three Formats and a Body Not Yet WrittenOn 29 August 2026, a press item shorter than a single page went out with a...
A King's Indian DVD and the Real Price of a Surprise MoveLast weekend, in a chess club on the second floor of an old market building i...
9...a5: When a Rare Move Becomes the Antidote to Preparation AnxietyThere is a moment at the board that no camera captures: the player with the...
