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ChessChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Four Annotation Tiers and a Headline That Doesn't Match the Body2026-10-18On a Saturday evening I opened the product page for ChessBase Magazine issue...
ChessThe 2026/87 Game: When a Clock Decided Bundesliga Relegation2026-10-14OPENING On board one, the white pieces were already in place. The clock had...
ChessScandinavian Defense: A Simple and Solid System for Club Players2026-10-13In the context of Vietnamese chess increasingly developing with many talented...
ChessChessBase Magazine 225: Bent Larsen on the Cover, Prague 2026 Inside2026-10-06At three in the morning, the download package for ChessBase Magazine issue 22...
A False FIDE Headline, a Fritz 20 Banner, and the Verification Lesson for Vietnamese ChessOn a late-August morning in 2026, I sat in a café at the far end of Tran Phu...
The FIDE President, Nicosia and the FRITZ 20 Promo Block: The Verification Gap in Chess JournalismA chess news site ran a headline: FIDE President Timur Turlov met Cyprus...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Four Annotation Tiers and a Headline That Doesn't Match the BodyOn a Saturday evening I opened the product page for ChessBase Magazine issue...
9...a5 against the Bayonet: a secondary sideline sold as an antidoteThe fourth game of a Saturday evening at a small chess club on Nguyen Thi Min...
US Championships: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — While the Body Sells an Opening CourseIn 2026, while I was still sitting in the VTC studio commentating on...
6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: A Record 140 Teams and an Unmeasured GapOn the online chessboard, there is no grandstand, no applause, only the...
AI Solves a 58-Year-Old Chess Problem: 63 Checking Moves and the Line Between Proof and ClaimIn October, a brief announcement appeared on specialist chess forums: an...
The 2026/87 Game: When a Clock Decided Bundesliga RelegationOPENING On board one, the white pieces were already in place. The clock had...
The Scandinavian Defense and the Time-Saving Equation: As FIDE Shortens the Clock, Amateur Chess Finds Its Own ShortcutThe FIDE General Assembly has just adopted a resolution on shortening time...
Scandinavian Defense: A Simple and Solid System for Club PlayersIn the context of Vietnamese chess increasingly developing with many talented...
Wesley So and Awonder Liang Lead the US Chess Championship: Reading a Perfect Score from the SidelineIn the round I was watching, the standings of the United States Chess...
The 5.e5 Move and the Strange Comforts of Superstition in ChessAt a club chess tournament in Chengdu last autumn, I sat behind a 52-year-old...
Anti-Meran or Closed Sicilian: Jacobson's Model Game and the Crack in How We Record ChessIn the title of the episode, Robert Ris states plainly: “7.b3 in the Anti-Mer...
2026 U.S. Chess Championships: Saint Louis, $400,000 and a Generational Handover in the Women's FieldIn the list of 12 players for the 2026 U.S. Women's Chess Championship, one...
From Bent Larsen to Prague 2026: Chess as a Form of Public MemoryThis morning, in a small room in Nha Trang, I opened a chess file downloaded...
The FIDE President, Nicosia and the FRITZ 20 Promo Block: The Verification Gap in Chess JournalismA chess news site ran a headline: FIDE President Timur Turlov met Cyprus...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Four Annotation Tiers and a Headline That Doesn't Match the BodyOn a Saturday evening I opened the product page for ChessBase Magazine issue...
9...a5 against the Bayonet: a secondary sideline sold as an antidoteThe fourth game of a Saturday evening at a small chess club on Nguyen Thi Min...
US Championships: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — While the Body Sells an Opening CourseIn 2026, while I was still sitting in the VTC studio commentating on...
6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: A Record 140 Teams and an Unmeasured GapOn the online chessboard, there is no grandstand, no applause, only the...
AI Solves a 58-Year-Old Chess Problem: 63 Checking Moves and the Line Between Proof and ClaimIn October, a brief announcement appeared on specialist chess forums: an...
The 2026/87 Game: When a Clock Decided Bundesliga RelegationOPENING On board one, the white pieces were already in place. The clock had...
The Scandinavian Defense and the Time-Saving Equation: As FIDE Shortens the Clock, Amateur Chess Finds Its Own ShortcutThe FIDE General Assembly has just adopted a resolution on shortening time...
Scandinavian Defense: A Simple and Solid System for Club PlayersIn the context of Vietnamese chess increasingly developing with many talented...
Wesley So and Awonder Liang Lead the US Chess Championship: Reading a Perfect Score from the SidelineIn the round I was watching, the standings of the United States Chess...
The 5.e5 Move and the Strange Comforts of Superstition in ChessAt a club chess tournament in Chengdu last autumn, I sat behind a 52-year-old...
Anti-Meran or Closed Sicilian: Jacobson's Model Game and the Crack in How We Record ChessIn the title of the episode, Robert Ris states plainly: “7.b3 in the Anti-Mer...
2026 U.S. Chess Championships: Saint Louis, $400,000 and a Generational Handover in the Women's FieldIn the list of 12 players for the 2026 U.S. Women's Chess Championship, one...
From Bent Larsen to Prague 2026: Chess as a Form of Public MemoryThis morning, in a small room in Nha Trang, I opened a chess file downloaded...