Chess
ChessEuropean Club Cup in Budva: Bayegan Pendik, 2715 Elo and the Limits of a Rating SheetOn the third morning in Budva, the pairing sheets go up on the glass wall of...
ChessTotal Chess opens in Budapest: three formats, four players, and a rating system nobody has definedOn 29 August 2026 a release announced that the Total Chess World Championship...
ChessThe 60-Minute Scandinavian: a genuinely solid system sold with a promise it can't keepBoard seven, an open tournament in Delhi this summer. Black plays 1...d5, Whi...
ChessTotal Chess Opens Budapest in November 2026: The Unified Rating System Still Has No ShapeOn 29 August 2026, a short news item about a new chess event appeared. The...
ChessThe 9...a5 Move and the Price of Surprise in the King's IndianAt a small chess club in central Moscow I sat behind a young player for four...
ChessThe Benko Gambit and the Training Engine: When a Headline No Longer Matches the TextOn a rainy evening in Bangalore, I reopened an article a reader had sent me....
ChessThe Nameless One's Move: When the Benko Gambit Becomes a Confession of an EraOn an April afternoon, I sat in the eleventh row of a club-level tournament,...
Chess9...a5 in the King’s Indian Defense: Strategy, Data, and the Trap of Promotional ClaimsI once sat for a long time before a chessboard with no pieces. On the screen...
ChessNo Need to Panic Against the Scotch Opening: Grandmaster Adrian Mikhalchishin's Video GuideIn the world of chess, there are openings that seem long forgotten, considere...
ChessChess Champion Garry Kasparov and the Career Behind the Scotch OpeningIn modern chess history, few openings have experienced a journey as strange a...
ChessChess Bundesliga 2026/87: When a Relegation Was Decided Off the BoardThe 2026/87 German Chess Bundesliga season left behind a case in which the...
ChessBodhana in the Bundesliga and the Rulebook Lesson of the 2026/87 SeasonThe first board stayed empty while the clock was already running. The hall of...
ChessThe UzChess Cup Miniature and the Trap of a Theory-Avoidance OpeningAt board three of the UzChess Cup, there was a moment the scoreboard will nev...
Chess743 Episodes and a Game Without a Result: What ChessBase Teaches the Chess World About PatienceEpisode 743. A game between two names, Gaal and Smeets. Across everything...
ChessThe 9...a5 Move and a Misplaced Name: When a Chess DVD Wears the Clothes of a News ReportThere is a moment in every King's Indian Defense game when the board stops...
ChessBodhana Sivanandan, 11, on Board One: The 3.Bc4 Move and a Lesson from SamarkandAt Samarkand, when the seventh round closed, an eleven-year-old girl sat at...
ChessChessBase Magazine Issue 225 Released: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and the Mark of Chess Festival Prague 2026ChessBase Magazine issue 225 has just been presented by publisher ChessBase a...
ChessTotal Chess opens in Budapest: three formats, four players, and a rating system nobody has definedOn 29 August 2026 a release announced that the Total Chess World Championship...
ChessThe 60-Minute Scandinavian: a genuinely solid system sold with a promise it can't keepBoard seven, an open tournament in Delhi this summer. Black plays 1...d5, Whi...
ChessTotal Chess Opens Budapest in November 2026: The Unified Rating System Still Has No ShapeOn 29 August 2026, a short news item about a new chess event appeared. The...
ChessThe 9...a5 Move and the Price of Surprise in the King's IndianAt a small chess club in central Moscow I sat behind a young player for four...
ChessThe Benko Gambit and the Training Engine: When a Headline No Longer Matches the TextOn a rainy evening in Bangalore, I reopened an article a reader had sent me....
ChessThe Nameless One's Move: When the Benko Gambit Becomes a Confession of an EraOn an April afternoon, I sat in the eleventh row of a club-level tournament,...
Chess9...a5 in the King’s Indian Defense: Strategy, Data, and the Trap of Promotional ClaimsI once sat for a long time before a chessboard with no pieces. On the screen...
ChessNo Need to Panic Against the Scotch Opening: Grandmaster Adrian Mikhalchishin's Video GuideIn the world of chess, there are openings that seem long forgotten, considere...
ChessChess Champion Garry Kasparov and the Career Behind the Scotch OpeningIn modern chess history, few openings have experienced a journey as strange a...
ChessChess Bundesliga 2026/87: When a Relegation Was Decided Off the BoardThe 2026/87 German Chess Bundesliga season left behind a case in which the...
ChessBodhana in the Bundesliga and the Rulebook Lesson of the 2026/87 SeasonThe first board stayed empty while the clock was already running. The hall of...
ChessThe UzChess Cup Miniature and the Trap of a Theory-Avoidance OpeningAt board three of the UzChess Cup, there was a moment the scoreboard will nev...
Chess743 Episodes and a Game Without a Result: What ChessBase Teaches the Chess World About PatienceEpisode 743. A game between two names, Gaal and Smeets. Across everything...
ChessThe 9...a5 Move and a Misplaced Name: When a Chess DVD Wears the Clothes of a News ReportThere is a moment in every King's Indian Defense game when the board stops...
ChessBodhana Sivanandan, 11, on Board One: The 3.Bc4 Move and a Lesson from SamarkandAt Samarkand, when the seventh round closed, an eleven-year-old girl sat at...
ChessChessBase Magazine Issue 225 Released: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and the Mark of Chess Festival Prague 2026ChessBase Magazine issue 225 has just been presented by publisher ChessBase a...
