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Reading the European Club Cup from Budva: 108 Teams, One at 2715, and a Headline With No BodyIn the report on the European Club Cup in Budva, there is one line almost...
Carlsen: AI Has Flattened Preparation Advantage, and Human Limits Are ShowingThere is a column in my tracking notebook that I only started filling in from...
European Club Cup 2026: Bayegan's 2715 Elo and the 65-Point-Per-Board ProblemBudva, 108 Teams and One Line of Elo Budva, 19 October 2026. The European Clu...
US Chess Championship: Two Perfect Scores and an Unverified Defensive RepertoireOn the scoreboard of the US Chess Championship, two names sit side by side in...
Valeri Lilov and the Tactical Video Series: A Black Repertoire Against 1.d4 d5I still remember a game at a Hanoi club tournament in 2026. The player with t...
ChessBase Magazine Issue 225: Prague 2026, 27 Miniatures, and the Limits of Paid Chess Training MaterialOn October 8, when ChessBase Magazine Issue 225 was pushed to the servers, mo...
Turkey's 14-Year-Old, the Unverified 2,731 Number, and How We Write Legends Before the Facts Can SpeakThere is a moment in chess that I always try to capture, even though it lasts...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: What 'Magic Defense' Is Being Sold to Vietnamese Chess Players?Last night, in a Vietnamese chess group with over 40,000 members, I saw an...
India wins the 2026 Chess Olympiad: re-reading a century through board geometryIndia wins the 2026 Chess Olympiad: re-reading a century through board geomet...
FRITZ 20: The Chess Training Revolution and the Gap Between Machine and LearnerI still remember an evening in late March this year, sitting over a replay of...
Nihal Sarin, the +2 Position and Three Fateful Moves: When a Win Was Dropped at the Chess OlympiadThirty minutes remained on the clock. On the board, the evaluation sat at +2 ...
A Blank Page in Saint Petersburg: Chess Data Verification in the Age of RumourA Blank Page in Saint Petersburg: Chess Data Verification in the Age of Rumou...
15/16 Board Points in Samarkand: When One Chess Report Tells Two Stories at OnceIn Samarkand, after Round 4, the United States women's team board score stand...
The 9...a5 Move and the Echo of a Study Package in the 2026 Chess SeasonI still remember a March afternoon in 2026, sitting in the small studio on Ly...
Samarkand and Hong Kong: One Upset, Two Carlsen Defeats, and the Collective Rhythm of Dragon ChillingOn June 18, 2026, in Samarkand, a Thai player sat across from Arjun Erigaisi....
Sixty Minutes, One Pawn, and a Promise Called the Elephant GambitOne in the morning in Shanghai. A blitz game reaches move two: Black pushes t...
ChessBase Endgame Academy: Karsten Müller and 25 Years of Turning Endgames into a Training SystemIn August 2026, ChessBase announced a new edition of its Endgame Academy,...
GCL 2026: Nepomniachtchi gives Carlsen a scare before getting past Sindarov on the clockWhen the clock on board one stopped, Magnus Carlsen was still sitting there,...
PM Modi gifts Javokhir Sindarov's World Cup scoresheet to Uzbek president: Chess becomes a diplomatic bridgeIn a deeply symbolic move, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted the...
2026 Chess Olympiad: India Defends Crown in the Heart of SamarkandSamarkand, the ancient city along the Zeravshan River, will become the focal...
Global Chess League 2026: Carlsen Returns, $1M Prize, and the Schedule TrapWhen Tech Mahindra announced the participant list for the fourth season of th...
Chess Olympiad 2026: India faces a double challenge in Samarkand – Official schedule releasedSamarkand, the legendary city on the Silk Road, will become the center of the...
Chess Olympiad 2026: India faces double challenge in Samarkand – Official schedule releasedWhen data doesn't lie, we are the ones who deceive ourselves. The official...
Chess Olympiad 2026: India Defends Its Throne in the Heart of Samarkand, and the Equation Named SindarovI once misplaced a SHB Da Nang video tape, and from that day I learned that...
The Harmonious Move: Sindarov's World Cup Scoresheet and the New Generation's EquationI have never been to Tashkent, but I can visualize that moment: in the formal...
2026 Chess Olympiad Schedule: India faces challenge on Uzbek soilPeople say girls don't know anything about tactics. So I write for them to...
Chess Diplomacy: Sindarov's World Cup Final Scoresheet Becomes a Presidential GiftA thin sheet of paper with the ink strokes of a 20-year-old boy, from the...
A Game Scoresheet Becomes a Diplomatic Symbol: PM Modi Presents World Cup Souvenir to Uzbek PresidentEarlier this month, during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's state visit ...
Modi's Gift: A 20-Year-Old's Scoresheet That Shifts Global Chess DiplomacyI mispronounced a player's name, then read the game right when the slow-motio...
