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ChessBase #225: A European Club Cup headline, a body that is a 27-game catalogue
US Chess Championships and the Elephant Gambit: When a Headline Hides an Opening Course
The Split Game: Wesley So, Awonder Liang and a Feed Item Out of Place
Bodhana Sivanandan, the 3.Bc4 Move and the 2504 Number at the Samarkand 2026 Olympiad
2026 U.S. Chess Championship: Caruana Defends His Crown in a 12-Player Round-Robin With a $400,000+ Prize Pool
King's Indian: Measuring the Promise of 9...a5 in an Opening DVDOn the cover of an opening DVD, the boldest line reads: "computers don't...
The Hour of the Seconds: Lessons From an Old Defensive Gambit in the King's IndianIn 2026, at age 25, I sat in the analysis room of SHB Da Nang with a match ta...
ChessBase #225: A European Club Cup headline, a body that is a 27-game catalogue2:14 a.m., Da Nang. I open ChessBase and see the headline: “European Club Cup...
Benko Gambit and FRITZ 20: When the Sales Headline Does Not Match the Actual ContentFor many years of following chess opening products and how they are marketed ...
The Elephant Gambit: When Opening Theory Becomes a Psychological WeaponI spent three months learning that a beautiful chart is no substitute for a...
The Forgotten Elephant: Woodward Downs Caruana and the Silence Behind the HeadlineThere is a move that no one in the hall of the US Chess Championship stood up...
US Chess Championships and the Elephant Gambit: When a Headline Hides an Opening CourseOn a weekend morning, I sat before my screen in a small apartment in Saint...
Woodward Takes Down Caruana at the US Chess Championship: When a Competitive Headline Is Used to Sell an Opening CourseIn a round most spectators remember for exactly one name, Woodward took down...
The Headline About Woodward Beating Caruana — and a Sacrificed Pawn at the Bottom of the PageThere was a headline I read three times before clicking. It told of a young...
IM Andrew Martin's 60-Minute Scandinavian: A Low-Maintenance System and the Shadow of Magnus CarlsenIn a video exactly 60 minutes long, a man sits in front of a chessboard and...
The Split Game: Wesley So, Awonder Liang and a Feed Item Out of PlaceIn a single line, a chess news feed declared that Wesley So and Awonder Liang...
The Chess Transfer Window: ChessBase Signs Kostya Kavutskiy and the FritzTrainer Catalogue ProblemThere is a detail in Jochen Schwarz's review that most readers scroll past. H...
ChessBase Adds a New FritzTrainer Author: The Chess Instruction Market Is Shifting Its AxisA late weekend afternoon, in a small chess club on Nguyễn Đình Chiểu Street, ...
ChessBase Signs Kostya Kavutskiy: The Chess Market Is Buying People, Not MovesNo elite game was played this week. No title match, no knockout, no ranking...
Game Number 743: The Storyteller Who Needs No ArenaOn the ChessBase platform, a notice is posted every Wednesday evening: "Game ...
Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, and the 3.Bc4 Move That Silenced the Samarkand HallOn the afternoon of September 24, 2026, in the tournament hall in Samarkand,...
Bodhana Sivanandan, the 3.Bc4 Move and the 2504 Number at the Samarkand 2026 OlympiadThe hand that placed the bishop on c4 was so small that, on the television...
Timur Turlov Is Not FIDE President: When a Chess Report's Headline and Body Tell Two Different StoriesOn my desk in Shenzhen there are two screenshots. The first carries a headlin...
The 11-Year-Old Prodigy Bodhana Sivanandan and the 3.Bc4 Gamble at the Samarkand 2026 Chess Olympiad1. A Headline That Raises a Question in the Middle of the Olympiad On Septemb...
2026 U.S. Chess Championship: Caruana Defends His Crown in a 12-Player Round-Robin With a $400,000+ Prize PoolTHE 2026 U.S. CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP AND THE 2026 U.S. WOMEN'S CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP...
The 5.e5! Move and the Trap of Preparation: When an Opening Weapon Becomes a Double-Edged SwordI remember sitting in a small chess café on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street in Da...
Reading ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and a Name Missing from the Table of ContentsOn the cover of ChessBase Magazine #225 there is a name. In the table of...
Karsten Müller, ChessBase and the Endgame Lesson in the Age of InteractivityThere is a moment every chess player remembers clearly: when the two opponent...
A 60-Minute Najdorf Update and a Wrong Headline: When the Data Pipeline BreaksA record sits in my database under the headline "Main decisions of the FIDE...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: Black's Strategic Escape in the King's IndianThere is a moment that repeats itself in many chess clubs I have sat through....
The Scandinavian Defense: A Time-Saving Move and the Line Marketing Won't DrawIn the database I have built over many years, the move 1...d5 against 1.e4...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures and the Real Story Behind a Paid Training PackageOn my desk in Mumbai, the folder named after this year is already two-thirds...