Chess
The Bayonet 'Antidote': Auditing a King's Indian Recommendation That Names No Games
Neiksans in the Headline, Martin in the Body: The 60-Minute Scandinavian Defense Pitch and Its Uncited Carlsen Claim
NATO Chess Championship: The Big Story Behind Vahap Sanal and Türkiye's Victory
Four Names in Budapest, One Missing Rating File: Total Chess Opens With an Incomplete Draft
An 'Antidote' to the Bayonet Attack: Auditing 9...a5 and the Claims of an Opening Product
European Club Cup: The 2715 Average and the Arithmetic of 3.5 — The Numbers Hidden Before the Favourites Meet
ChessNATO Chess Championship: The Big Story Behind Vahap Sanal and Türkiye's VictoryWhen I first saw the headline about Vahap Sanal and Türkiye winning the NATO...
ChessFour Names in Budapest, One Missing Rating File: Total Chess Opens With an Incomplete Draft29 August 2026, afternoon. The press release arrived as a screenshot. The...
ChessAn 'Antidote' to the Bayonet Attack: Auditing 9...a5 and the Claims of an Opening ProductIt was eleven at night in Kolkata, the rain returning in shifts, and an openi...
ChessThe Bayonet 'Antidote': Auditing a King's Indian Recommendation That Names No GamesA browser tab has been open on my desk in Hyderabad since nine in the morning...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: The 2715 Average and the Arithmetic of 3.5 — The Numbers Hidden Before the Favourites MeetThere is a line in the score sheet after round two of the European Club Cup...
ChessThe Chess Book's Mask: Bodhana Sivanandan's Name, an Italian Game Line, and an Empty Data LedgerIn September 2026, when 8-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan sat at an Olympiad boar...
ChessVahap Sanal and Team Türkiye at the NATO Chess Championship: A Headline Without a BodyThe loudest thing about a news item is never its headline. It is its testimon...
ChessTotal Chess Budapest Pilot: The Rating Debate Is Hiding in the Time ControlThe press note that landed in my inbox on 29 August 2026 had a headline that...
ChessFour Players, Eleven Days and a 'Fast Classic': Total Chess's Budapest Pilot Is Commercial Casting, Not a Rating RevolutionBudapest, 10 November 2026. Somewhere in my phone there is a photograph from...
ChessNeiksans in the Headline, Martin in the Body: The 60-Minute Scandinavian Defense Pitch and Its Uncited Carlsen ClaimHook A page. At the top, the headline: “From quitting chess to becoming a...
ChessFrom Bedsheet to Board: In Search of the Silence in Mar del Plata Where Even Engines BowThe moment never makes it onto the scoresheet — when a senior grandmaster sit...
ChessA Cover Promising 'Comfortable Wins', Not a Single Move Inside: ChessBase #225 and the Content Economy of ChessLast week, late at night, I opened issue 225 of ChessBase Magazine. The cover...
ChessA Budva Headline Over an Elephant Gambit Pitch: Two Different Worlds on One PageTwo things were placed on one page, and neither knew the other was there. The...
ChessThe Benko Gambit Review and FRITZ 20: When a Chess Review Loses Its Own IdentityHook: One Title, Two Products, and a Review That Doesn't Recognize Itself...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: The Real Story Behind the Favourites' Comfortable WinsThe alarm went off at three in the morning. Riyadh, December 2026. I was...
ChessFour Names in Budapest, One Missing Rating File: Total Chess Opens With an Incomplete Draft29 August 2026, afternoon. The press release arrived as a screenshot. The...
ChessAn 'Antidote' to the Bayonet Attack: Auditing 9...a5 and the Claims of an Opening ProductIt was eleven at night in Kolkata, the rain returning in shifts, and an openi...
ChessThe Bayonet 'Antidote': Auditing a King's Indian Recommendation That Names No GamesA browser tab has been open on my desk in Hyderabad since nine in the morning...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: The 2715 Average and the Arithmetic of 3.5 — The Numbers Hidden Before the Favourites MeetThere is a line in the score sheet after round two of the European Club Cup...
ChessThe Chess Book's Mask: Bodhana Sivanandan's Name, an Italian Game Line, and an Empty Data LedgerIn September 2026, when 8-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan sat at an Olympiad boar...
ChessVahap Sanal and Team Türkiye at the NATO Chess Championship: A Headline Without a BodyThe loudest thing about a news item is never its headline. It is its testimon...
ChessTotal Chess Budapest Pilot: The Rating Debate Is Hiding in the Time ControlThe press note that landed in my inbox on 29 August 2026 had a headline that...
ChessFour Players, Eleven Days and a 'Fast Classic': Total Chess's Budapest Pilot Is Commercial Casting, Not a Rating RevolutionBudapest, 10 November 2026. Somewhere in my phone there is a photograph from...
ChessNeiksans in the Headline, Martin in the Body: The 60-Minute Scandinavian Defense Pitch and Its Uncited Carlsen ClaimHook A page. At the top, the headline: “From quitting chess to becoming a...
ChessFrom Bedsheet to Board: In Search of the Silence in Mar del Plata Where Even Engines BowThe moment never makes it onto the scoresheet — when a senior grandmaster sit...
ChessA Cover Promising 'Comfortable Wins', Not a Single Move Inside: ChessBase #225 and the Content Economy of ChessLast week, late at night, I opened issue 225 of ChessBase Magazine. The cover...
ChessA Budva Headline Over an Elephant Gambit Pitch: Two Different Worlds on One PageTwo things were placed on one page, and neither knew the other was there. The...
ChessThe Benko Gambit Review and FRITZ 20: When a Chess Review Loses Its Own IdentityHook: One Title, Two Products, and a Review That Doesn't Recognize Itself...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: The Real Story Behind the Favourites' Comfortable WinsThe alarm went off at three in the morning. Riyadh, December 2026. I was...