Chess
An 11-Year-Old on Board One: Bodhana Sivanandan and the 2504 at the Samarkand 2026 Chess Olympiad
Information Scandal in the Central Asian Chess Wave: Who Is 'FIDE President Timur Turlov' and Why Is This Headline Wrong?
When a Headline Betrays the Board: The Misidentified FIDE Leadership and the 9...a5 Move
Learning Strategy from Bent Larsen: When a Legend Becomes a Product
5.e5 and the Limits of Trust: The Modern Italian Package in the 60 Minutes SeriesBoard seven, fourth game of the Saturday session. White pushes the pawn to e5...
The Match Nobody Watched: When the Benko Gambit and Fritz 20 Got Bound Into the Same Ad PageI spent forty minutes reading a chess product page and found not a single mov...
63 Checking Moves and the 364 Bound: A 58-Year-Old Chess Problem Meets Double AgentIn a room with no stands, no cheering, only the blue glow of a screen and row...
The Rise of the Scotch Opening: From Obscurity to Champion's Weapon and Modern Defensive SolutionsThe Scotch Opening, with the move sequence 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4, was once...
The Scotch Opening: When a Forgotten Line Became a Champion's WeaponIn the summer of 2026, at the World Championship match in New York, there was...
The Scotch Game: A Forgotten Opening and Mikhalchishin's AntidoteIn the small room of a chess club on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in Da Nang, a...
The 5.e5 Move and the Strange Comfort of Club-Level ChessThere is a moment on the board I cannot forget. A club player in Mumbai pushe...
Liang Beats Niemann in Round One of the US Chess Championship: When a Headline Tells a Different Story Than the BoardThe game ended before I could set my pen down. Awonder Liang defeated Hans...
US Chess Championship: Liang Beats Niemann in Round 1, and What a Headline Does Not TellAt my desk in Nha Trang, I keep a habit that a few colleagues find odd: with...
Abandoning 2.c4: White's Seven Entries and How Black Fights BackOn a late October evening in Binh Duong, I sat alone with my electronic board...
9...a5 and the King's Indian spatial map: the real gap is not on the boardI read a headline, then started the clock. Fourteen seconds — enough to redra...
The 9...a5 Move, the DVD, and the Name Sitting in the Wrong FIDE President's ChairI once stood on a football pitch with no stands on the outskirts of Bangalore...
An 11-Year-Old on Board One: Bodhana Sivanandan and the 2504 at the Samarkand 2026 Chess OlympiadSamarkand, round seven. Board one of the England women's team. Across the boa...
Information Scandal in the Central Asian Chess Wave: Who Is 'FIDE President Timur Turlov' and Why Is This Headline Wrong?A headline that puzzled the entire chess world In recent days, a headline has...
When a Headline Betrays the Board: The Misidentified FIDE Leadership and the 9...a5 MoveThere are numbers on a chessboard that make people stop. But there are number...
The Match Nobody Watched: When the Benko Gambit and Fritz 20 Got Bound Into the Same Ad PageI spent forty minutes reading a chess product page and found not a single mov...
63 Checking Moves and the 364 Bound: A 58-Year-Old Chess Problem Meets Double AgentIn a room with no stands, no cheering, only the blue glow of a screen and row...
The Rise of the Scotch Opening: From Obscurity to Champion's Weapon and Modern Defensive SolutionsThe Scotch Opening, with the move sequence 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4, was once...
The Scotch Opening: When a Forgotten Line Became a Champion's WeaponIn the summer of 2026, at the World Championship match in New York, there was...
The Scotch Game: A Forgotten Opening and Mikhalchishin's AntidoteIn the small room of a chess club on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in Da Nang, a...
The 5.e5 Move and the Strange Comfort of Club-Level ChessThere is a moment on the board I cannot forget. A club player in Mumbai pushe...
Liang Beats Niemann in Round One of the US Chess Championship: When a Headline Tells a Different Story Than the BoardThe game ended before I could set my pen down. Awonder Liang defeated Hans...
US Chess Championship: Liang Beats Niemann in Round 1, and What a Headline Does Not TellAt my desk in Nha Trang, I keep a habit that a few colleagues find odd: with...
Abandoning 2.c4: White's Seven Entries and How Black Fights BackOn a late October evening in Binh Duong, I sat alone with my electronic board...
9...a5 and the King's Indian spatial map: the real gap is not on the boardI read a headline, then started the clock. Fourteen seconds — enough to redra...
The 9...a5 Move, the DVD, and the Name Sitting in the Wrong FIDE President's ChairI once stood on a football pitch with no stands on the outskirts of Bangalore...
An 11-Year-Old on Board One: Bodhana Sivanandan and the 2504 at the Samarkand 2026 Chess OlympiadSamarkand, round seven. Board one of the England women's team. Across the boa...
Information Scandal in the Central Asian Chess Wave: Who Is 'FIDE President Timur Turlov' and Why Is This Headline Wrong?A headline that puzzled the entire chess world In recent days, a headline has...
When a Headline Betrays the Board: The Misidentified FIDE Leadership and the 9...a5 MoveThere are numbers on a chessboard that make people stop. But there are number...