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ChessBase Magazine Issue 225: A Product Page Dressed as an Academy SeasonAt Chess Festival Prague 2026, a headline appeared on a product page: “KCF...
9...a5 against the Bayonet Attack: the King's Indian's strategic antidote and its data voidThe cover page promised a farewell triumph. The content contained a ninth mov...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Eleven Online Days: The Prison Chess Championship Through a Data LensIn 2026, at sixty-two, I sat in a small apartment in Chengdu, opened a World...
European Club Cup 2026 in Budva: Bayegan Pendik at 2715 Elo, and the real gap begins in round fiveOn 19 October 2026, in Budva, Montenegro, the round-three pairing board of th...
Modern Italian 5.e5!: A 60-Minute Weapon and the Price of MemorabilityOn a Saturday evening at a small chess club in Thu Dau Mot, I sat behind a...
The Two Missing Moves: Reading a 9...a5 King's Indian Sales Pitch Through VerificationIn the packet that reached me this month there was a product sheet for an...
European Club Cup on a Sales Page: When a Headline Promises a Game and Delivers a CatalogueFour minutes. That is all the time I needed to read the piece headlined...
A Benko Gambit feature with no moves: when headline and product content drift apartOn a chess product page, the headline reads: “The Modern Benko Gambit — A Ful...
A Dortmund 2027 Headline That Does Not Exist, and IM Andrew Martin's 60-Minute PromiseI clicked the link at 2:47 in the morning, Delhi time, and the headline came ...
9...a5: an old move and the gamble of playing by understanding in an engine-shaped opening marketThe seventeen-year-old's clock still showed forty-one minutes. His opponent's...
Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027 and the Trust Lesson From a Chess Course Sales PageOn May 7, 2026, in Da Nang, I reopened a promotional page for a 60-minute vid...
A Dortmund Headline, a Scandinavian Body: The Crack in the Chess Course MarketA rainy October evening in Da Nang. I opened a link someone had shared in a...
The Scandinavian Defense: The Time-Saver's Opening and the Trap of the Course SellerI opened that promotional page at eleven at night, after rewinding a recordin...
Woodward Downs Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap: Reading the US Championships with Spreadsheets, Not HeadlinesThe game ended when the clock struck 6:42 in the evening. Woodward rose from...
6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: Record 140 Teams ParticipateThe 6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners has official...
6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: A Record 140 Teams and the Silence of the MediaThere is a chess tournament that nobody at a Delhi press conference ever asks...
Karsten Müller and the Endgame Economy: Real Authority, an Unverified TestimonialMove 47 and the Trap of Borrowed Authority At move 47 of a Bundesliga game,...
US Chess Championship Opening Round: Awonder Liang Beats Hans Niemann and the Silence Behind the HeadlineBefore every article, I open three tabs at once. One for the game database, o...
The 5.e5 Push in the Italian Game: A Club-Level Weapon and the Verification GapOn a Saturday morning at a chess club, I sat behind a sixteen-year-old studen...
2026 U.S. Chess Championships: Caruana's Crown and a Generational Handover at the Women's BoardFrom 2026, when the first sports newspapers of a young Vietnam began to take...
Behind the 5.e5! move: When amateur chess becomes a laboratory of tactical trapsAt a chess club in Chengdu on a Saturday afternoon, I observed a match betwee...
5.e5 and the Art of Trading a Pawn for Space: Decoding the Scotch GambitI still remember that evening in a small chess club tucked away in a quiet...
Samarkand: Six Individual Medals, Two Team Medals, and a Golden-Standard Lesson India Was Not Ready to LearnIn the final round at Samarkand, I sat in front of the screen at three in the...
Bodhana Sivanandan, the WGM-at-11 Record, and an Elephant Gambit That Isn't RealIntroduction I have a habit of reviewing games late at night, when the city h...
