Chess
European Club Cup: Bayegan Pendik's 2715 Average and the 65-Point-Per-Board Problem in Budva
ChessBase Adds Kostya Kavutskiy to Its FritzTrainer Roster: Two New Courses and the Quiet War Among Chess Authors
Daniel King's 60-Minute Najdorf Update: Five Opening Complexes, a Business Model, and a Mislabeled Tag
Echoes of Empty Stands: When Vietnamese Chess Enters the Season of Oblivion
The Scotch Opening: From Kasparov's 2026 Weapon to Mikhalchishin's Lesson in Neutralisation
European Club Cup: Bayegan Pendik's 2715 Average and the 65-Point-Per-Board Problem in BudvaIn Budva, inside the European Club Cup hall, there are 108 open teams and 22...
European Club Cup in Budva: Bayegan Pendik, 2715 Elo and the 65-Point-Per-Board ProblemRound three in Budva opened with a standings table that looked like a printin...
The Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: Where 'Easy to Play' Ends and 'Sound Enough' BeginsBoard seven, round four of a club tournament in Da Nang. Black pushes 1...d5 ...
The 9...a5 Move and the Real Cost of a SurpriseSaturday evening, a chess café on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street, Da Nang. I sat...
The Move in Silence: When the Benko Gambit Returns from MemoryIn 2026, at a team tournament in Rostov, I sat behind a small magnetic board ...
Benko Gambit in the Headline, FRITZ 20 in the Body: The Credibility Gap in the Chess Repertoire MarketI opened the page with a pencil in hand. Old habit: before any opening...
9...a5 and the Anti-Memorization Gamble in the King's Indian DefenseDa Nang, a Saturday evening at the end of the month. Rain tapped softly again...
Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027: Tournament Headline 'Misattached' to a Chess CourseIn the chess world, the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting has long been one o...
When the 'Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027' Headline Led Me to a Scandinavian Defense CourseI was sitting in a corner cafe on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in Da Nang when tha...
The Scotch Opening: From 'Harmless' to Kasparov's Weapon and Black's AntidoteThe Scotch Opening: From 'Harmless' to Kasparov's Weapon and Black's Antidote...
Karsten Müller and the Authority-Conversion Model of Endgame Chess in the Engine EraLast summer, during an endgame training session for a group of young players ...
Karsten Müller and the Art of Staying: The Keeper of the EndgameIn a Bundesliga playing hall in Hamburg, there is a man who stays behind long...
ChessBase Adds Kostya Kavutskiy to Its FritzTrainer Roster: Two New Courses and the Quiet War Among Chess AuthorsA New Name Beside Two Old Ones In the second instalment of his course review...
The Italian Center Gambit and 5.e5!: The Practical Weapon Sveshnikov Left for Club PlayersOn a weekend evening at a small chess club by the Han River, I sat behind a...
Kim Thanh, the penalty, and the lesson for Vietnamese women's footballOn the night of July 22, 2026, at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand, a small...
Reading the Chess King: When Magazine #225 Sells Bent Larsen's Strategic Dream27 miniatures. 10 opening articles. Three video names. And one legend who die...
Inside Daniel King's 60-Minute Najdorf Update — and a Misplaced HeadlineOn the same data record, the headline reads plainly: "Main decisions of the...
Daniel King's 60-Minute Najdorf Update: Five Opening Complexes, a Business Model, and a Mislabeled TagThere are moves whose strength lies not in what they do, but in what they...
European Club Cup in Budva: Bayegan Pendik, 2715 Elo and the 65-Point-Per-Board ProblemRound three in Budva opened with a standings table that looked like a printin...
The Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: Where 'Easy to Play' Ends and 'Sound Enough' BeginsBoard seven, round four of a club tournament in Da Nang. Black pushes 1...d5 ...
The 9...a5 Move and the Real Cost of a SurpriseSaturday evening, a chess café on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street, Da Nang. I sat...
The Move in Silence: When the Benko Gambit Returns from MemoryIn 2026, at a team tournament in Rostov, I sat behind a small magnetic board ...
Benko Gambit in the Headline, FRITZ 20 in the Body: The Credibility Gap in the Chess Repertoire MarketI opened the page with a pencil in hand. Old habit: before any opening...
9...a5 and the Anti-Memorization Gamble in the King's Indian DefenseDa Nang, a Saturday evening at the end of the month. Rain tapped softly again...
Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027: Tournament Headline 'Misattached' to a Chess CourseIn the chess world, the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting has long been one o...
When the 'Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027' Headline Led Me to a Scandinavian Defense CourseI was sitting in a corner cafe on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in Da Nang when tha...
The Scotch Opening: From 'Harmless' to Kasparov's Weapon and Black's AntidoteThe Scotch Opening: From 'Harmless' to Kasparov's Weapon and Black's Antidote...
Karsten Müller and the Authority-Conversion Model of Endgame Chess in the Engine EraLast summer, during an endgame training session for a group of young players ...
Karsten Müller and the Art of Staying: The Keeper of the EndgameIn a Bundesliga playing hall in Hamburg, there is a man who stays behind long...
ChessBase Adds Kostya Kavutskiy to Its FritzTrainer Roster: Two New Courses and the Quiet War Among Chess AuthorsA New Name Beside Two Old Ones In the second instalment of his course review...
The Italian Center Gambit and 5.e5!: The Practical Weapon Sveshnikov Left for Club PlayersOn a weekend evening at a small chess club by the Han River, I sat behind a...
Kim Thanh, the penalty, and the lesson for Vietnamese women's footballOn the night of July 22, 2026, at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand, a small...
Reading the Chess King: When Magazine #225 Sells Bent Larsen's Strategic Dream27 miniatures. 10 opening articles. Three video names. And one legend who die...
Inside Daniel King's 60-Minute Najdorf Update — and a Misplaced HeadlineOn the same data record, the headline reads plainly: "Main decisions of the...
Daniel King's 60-Minute Najdorf Update: Five Opening Complexes, a Business Model, and a Mislabeled TagThere are moves whose strength lies not in what they do, but in what they...
