Chess
FRITZ 20 and the Trust Equation: How the Chess World Unmasks Itself Every Time a New Tool ArrivesI sat in front of my screen in Chengdu at two in the morning, reopening forty...
Total Chess Proposes a Unified Rating System: The Headline Exists, the Methodology Does NotTotal Chess Proposes a Unified Rating System: The Headline Exists, the...
The Hour of the Seconds: When 9...a5 Is Not a Shortcut but a Strategic GambleOn an evening in March 2026, I sat in the analysis room of Sanna Khanh Hoa BV...
The strange comforts of superstition in chess: when an old pawn move becomes a lucky charmIn a small café on Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai street, a grey-haired man pushed his...
Najdorf Sicilian 2026: Daniel King's 60-Minute Update and the Data GapLate in the afternoon in Da Nang, I opened a file that weighed less than a...
Najdorf, Daniel King, and 60 Minutes That Cannot Drain the SwampI have a strange habit. Every time I open a new chess file, I press play and...
India Wins the 2026 Chess Olympiad: A 97-Year Power Map Redrawn by DataBudapest, September 22, 2026. Round eleven of the open section, board three....
Samarkand 2026: India's 3.5-0.5 Win and the Void on the Top BoardsThe stadium was empty, but the applause of 2026 still echoes inside every old...
5.e5! in the Italian Game: Erigaisi and the Spatial Puzzle at the Centre of the BoardOn the board in the game between Erigaisi and Laohawirapap, on move five, a...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Behind the 15/16 Headline from SamarkandHook On the product page for ChessBase Magazine issue 225, the top line reads...
Three Moves That Dropped a Crown: How Nihal Sarin Forgot How to Finish a GameThe home field has no grandstand, but every time the ball rolls, a whole sky ...
The Scotch After Kasparov: From 'Harmless' to a Coaching CommodityTitle: The Scotch After Kasparov: From 'Harmless' to a Coaching Commodity Hoo...
Israel Forfeits Round 6 at the 2026 Chess Olympiad: Four Empty Boards and a Hole in the ScheduleWhen the Dutch team walked into the playing hall of the 2026 Chess Olympiad i...
Egon Mattaaq, the 2026 Scotch Game and the Data Gap Inside an Opening VideoEgon Mattaaq, the 2026 Scotch Game and the Data Gap Inside an Opening Video 3...
Eight leaders, not a single name: When the Samarkand chess news headline turns out to be a magazine adI opened the ChessBase page on a late evening in Shenzhen, my tea long gone...
Five Substitutions and the Final Twenty Minutes: How Vietnam's Women's National League Is Changing the Way It WinsThống Nhất Stadium, 4.04 p.m. The April afternoon sun was still sharp enough...
The Blank Data Page: The Fabrication Trap in Sports AnalysisTuesday morning, March 17, 2026, in my apartment in the Bandra district of...
GCL 2026: Nepomniachtchi Gives Carlsen a Scare Before Getting Past Sindarov on the ClockIn the framework of the Global Chess League 2026 season, Ian Nepomniachtchi...
