Chess
ChessThe Najdorf Never Stands Still: Daniel King's 60-Minute Update and Five Battlegrounds of Theory2026-10-13On a Thursday evening, at a small chess club on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, ...
ChessGame of the Week #743: Gaal vs Smeets and the Fourteen-Year Endurance of a Chess Series2026-10-09Every Wednesday evening, from Amsterdam, Merijn van Delft sits down in front ...
ChessBodhana Sivanandan, 3.Bc4 and the Spatial Map at the Samarkand 2026 Chess Olympiad2026-10-09On move three, the white bishop left f1 and came to rest on c4. There was no...
ChessThe 5.e5! Move and the Sveshnikov Curse: When Club Players Dream of Being Assassins2026-10-06I misspoke a player's name, then read the position correctly when the replay...
FIDE, FRITZ 20 and a False Headline: When Chess Engines Ran Out of Elo to Win WithOn August 31, 2026, I opened two tabs on the same screen. The left tab held a...
The Najdorf Never Stands Still: Daniel King's 60-Minute Update and Five Battlegrounds of TheoryOn a Thursday evening, at a small chess club on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, ...
Game of the Week #743: Gaal vs Smeets and the Fourteen-Year Endurance of a Chess SeriesEvery Wednesday evening, from Amsterdam, Merijn van Delft sits down in front ...
Bodhana Sivanandan, 3.Bc4 and the Spatial Map at the Samarkand 2026 Chess OlympiadOn move three, the white bishop left f1 and came to rest on c4. There was no...
When an Outsider Calls Chess InexpressiveWhen an Outsider Calls Chess Inexpressive I was sitting in a small studio in...
ChessBase Magazine #225: A Filter of 27 Short Games and the Chess Content MarketA chess magazine arrives with 27 short games, 10 opening articles and 3 openi...
The 5.e5! Push in the Modern Italian Game: A Club Weapon and Its Two-Edged TrapThe home board has no grandstand, but every time a piece touches it, a whole...
The 5.e5! Move and the Sveshnikov Curse: When Club Players Dream of Being AssassinsI misspoke a player's name, then read the position correctly when the replay...
Daniel King's 60-Minute Najdorf Update, and the Overwritten Memory of ChessIn a room with no stands, a man sits before a screen and presses play. The...
Daniel King's Najdorf Update: 60 Minutes and the Question of How Chess Theory WorksThe game reached move 34. On a small screen in an apartment in Nha Trang, a...
The Theory Escape After 1.d4 d5: Seven Systems Black Must Have an Answer ForRound Four, Board Seven Moscow, November 2026. Round four of an open...
India at the Samarkand Olympiad: Deep Enough for Medals, Not Deep Enough to Repeat BudapestThe final standings in Samarkand appeared on the board: India took silver in...
2026 Words for an Empty Analysis: A Lesson in Honesty for Sports JournalismI opened the file at 2:17 p.m. On the screen appeared an in-depth analysis wi...
The Scandinavian Defence in 60 Minutes: A Promise of Solidity and the Missing Data Behind ItA Wednesday evening in Shanghai. I stayed behind in the studio after the spor...
Yom Kippur in Samarkand: Israel forfeits two matches as opponents refuse schedule changeEvery chess player knows that there are 64 squares on the board, but not...
Vietnamese Chess: What the SEA Games Medals Don't SayI sat in the edit room at nearly two in the morning, headphones still carryin...
Chess and the Discipline of Data: What the Board Says Before the Player SpeaksThe 14th game of the World Chess Championship in Singapore, 12 December 2026....
Gukesh and Board 4 at the Chess Olympiad: 'It Was My Idea'In the third round in Samarkand, Gukesh Dommaraju sat at board four. Across...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: When an Opening Promises to Change the GameI remember an evening in March 2026, in a small editing room in Hai Phong, th...
FIDE 18/6/2026: Dragon Chilling Leads 14/16 in Hong Kong, Laohawirapap Topples Erigaisi in SamarkandOn the evening of 18 June 2026 I sat in front of two screens in Shenzhen. On...
The Samarkand Torch and Three Names That Need VerificationIn a modest hall in Samarkand, the torch of the 2026 Chess Olympiad passed fr...
The 2026 Chess Olympiad Torch and Three Names That Need the Tape RewoundThe torch was placed in Javokhir Sindarov's hands without a single shout. The...
The Discipline of the Empty Board: When a Sports Writer Must Learn to Stay Silent Before Blank DataOn the third night after the HDBank International Chess Tournament closed in ...