Chess
ChessBase Magazine 225: 27 Miniatures and an Industry That Sells PatienceThe game ended on move twenty-three. Viewers rewound it three times and still...
Carlsen: AI Flattens the Edge, and Chess Is Splitting Into Two ThronesTwenty million US dollars, set beside the just-over-one-million US dollars th...
The Hour of the Seconds DVD: 9...a5 and the Data Gap Behind the Sales PitchThe DVD is called “The Hour of the Seconds.” In English, “second” carries two...
9...a5 in the King's Indian: The 'Low-Theory' Promise and Its PriceOn the third board of a small club tucked down an alley off Nguyen Chi Thanh...
The Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: IM Andrew Martin, the Carlsen Shadow, and the Business of Selling Chess Study TimeOn that sales page, the largest line of text reads "Dortmund Sparkassen Troph...
9...a5: a move for those who understand, in an age of those who memorizeThe white pawn came down on b4 with two fingers, a dry click so small that on...
The Scotch Opening: A Move Once Dismissed as Harmless and How Kasparov Revived It at the 2026 World ChampionshipIn the summer of 2026, at a youth chess tournament held at Phu Tho Stadium in...
6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: 140 Teams and the Gaps No One Has FilledThere is a grandstand that has never held a spectator, and this season it...
FRITZ 20 and a Two-Decade Gap: When the Chess Engine Tries to Become a TeacherDa Nang, ten at night. In a small chess club at the end of a narrow alley, a...
Chess Olympiad 2026, Round 5: India's men keep the gold rhythm, India's women fall to PolandMoscow, close to midnight. Two boards still had pieces on them. Anish Giri...
Samarkand and the 5.e5! Move: How Daniel King Turned Jobava's Win into an Opening TextbookIt rained in Da Nang that night, and I rewatched Daniel King's video three...

