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European Club Cup: Beer Sheva's Lone Slip, a Crowded Lead, and a Board One Nobody Has ConfirmedBeer Sheva, the tenth seed at the European Club Cup, is the only team among t...
The Headline Says Turlov Runs FIDE. The Board Says Otherwise.Late on August 30, a link landed in my group chat. The headline said FIDE...
European Club Cup: Bayegan's 2715 Average and a Title Bought by Sponsor MoneyBudva, Montenegro, round three of seven under the Swiss system. The playing...
The 60-Minute Scandinavian: IM Andrew Martin's Speed Promise and the Credibility Crack in the HeadlineWhite plays 1.e4. The man across the board does not look at the board at all....
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...
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...
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...
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 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 Scotch Game of Marketing: When an Advertisement Poses as a FIDE Ratings ReportFIDE Ratings – October 2026. I opened the document expecting the newest world...
1.d4 d5 and the System Problem: When White Refuses Classical TheoryIn the database I have tracked across seven years of chess commentary for VTC...
Samarkand 15/16 and the Machine That Turns Games Into Study MaterialIn the preview page for ChessBase Magazine issue 225, the most striking line...
Fritz 20 and the Chess Training Turning Point: When the Machine Stops Being a Judge and Becomes a DiagnosticianOn move 27, the evaluation bar jumped from +0.18 to +1.42 after a single knig...
The Ninth Move and the Map of Space: 9...a5, the Bayonet, and How the King's Indian Redraws ItselfThere was a winter evening in Hanoi when I muted the computer and let the...
Fyers American Gambits Take Early Lead in 2026 Global Chess League After 10-4 VictoryThe opening day of the 2026 Global Chess League in Bengaluru became one of th...
PM Modi gifts Sindarov's scoresheet to Uzbek President: Chess becomes a diplomatic bridgeFrom the sideline corridor, I see the whole match. But today, there is no mat...
PM Modi gifts Javokhir Sindarov's World Cup scoresheet to Uzbek president: Chess diplomacy and a generational showdownI mislabeled the SHB Đà Nẵng tape that year, and from then on I knew that...
Magnus Carlsen returns to defend crown at Tech Mahindra Global Chess League Season 4The fourth season of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League is approaching,...
Chess Olympiad 2026: India Faces Double Challenge in Samarkand – Schedule Reveals a Relentless BattleSamarkand, the legendary city on the Silk Road, is preparing to host one of t...
The Scoresheet and the Bridge: When Chess Diplomacy Writes the Next Chapter for a GenerationIn the reception hall of the Presidential Palace of Uzbekistan, a thin sheet ...
PM Modi gifts Javokhir Sindarov's World Cup scoresheet to Uzbek president: Chess as a diplomatic bridgeWhen Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi handed the scoresheet of the 2026...
PM Modi gifts Sindarov's World Cup scoresheet to Uzbek president: Chess becomes a diplomatic bridgePM Modi gifts Sindarov's World Cup scoresheet to Uzbek president: Chess becom...
2026 Chess Olympiad: India and the Battle for Supremacy in SamarkandWhen FIDE released the 2026 Chess Olympiad schedule in Samarkand, I paused at...
When the Scoresheet Becomes a Diplomatic Symbol: Lessons from a Game No One SawI once misplaced the SHB Da Nang match tape, and from that moment I learned...
Samarkand 2026: The 11-Round Schedule, India's Throne, and Sindarov's PressurePeople often ask me: what is there to watch in chess when all you see are...
PM Modi gifts Sindarov's World Cup scoresheet to Uzbek president: Chess diplomacy and the rise of a golden generationI have followed chess for over forty years, and I remember vividly the feelin...
The Headline Says Turlov Runs FIDE. The Board Says Otherwise.Late on August 30, a link landed in my group chat. The headline said FIDE...
European Club Cup: Bayegan's 2715 Average and a Title Bought by Sponsor MoneyBudva, Montenegro, round three of seven under the Swiss system. The playing...
The 60-Minute Scandinavian: IM Andrew Martin's Speed Promise and the Credibility Crack in the HeadlineWhite plays 1.e4. The man across the board does not look at the board at all....
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...
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...
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...
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 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 Scotch Game of Marketing: When an Advertisement Poses as a FIDE Ratings ReportFIDE Ratings – October 2026. I opened the document expecting the newest world...
1.d4 d5 and the System Problem: When White Refuses Classical TheoryIn the database I have tracked across seven years of chess commentary for VTC...
Samarkand 15/16 and the Machine That Turns Games Into Study MaterialIn the preview page for ChessBase Magazine issue 225, the most striking line...
Fritz 20 and the Chess Training Turning Point: When the Machine Stops Being a Judge and Becomes a DiagnosticianOn move 27, the evaluation bar jumped from +0.18 to +1.42 after a single knig...
The Ninth Move and the Map of Space: 9...a5, the Bayonet, and How the King's Indian Redraws ItselfThere was a winter evening in Hanoi when I muted the computer and let the...
Fyers American Gambits Take Early Lead in 2026 Global Chess League After 10-4 VictoryThe opening day of the 2026 Global Chess League in Bengaluru became one of th...
PM Modi gifts Sindarov's scoresheet to Uzbek President: Chess becomes a diplomatic bridgeFrom the sideline corridor, I see the whole match. But today, there is no mat...
PM Modi gifts Javokhir Sindarov's World Cup scoresheet to Uzbek president: Chess diplomacy and a generational showdownI mislabeled the SHB Đà Nẵng tape that year, and from then on I knew that...
Magnus Carlsen returns to defend crown at Tech Mahindra Global Chess League Season 4The fourth season of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League is approaching,...
Chess Olympiad 2026: India Faces Double Challenge in Samarkand – Schedule Reveals a Relentless BattleSamarkand, the legendary city on the Silk Road, is preparing to host one of t...
The Scoresheet and the Bridge: When Chess Diplomacy Writes the Next Chapter for a GenerationIn the reception hall of the Presidential Palace of Uzbekistan, a thin sheet ...
PM Modi gifts Javokhir Sindarov's World Cup scoresheet to Uzbek president: Chess as a diplomatic bridgeWhen Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi handed the scoresheet of the 2026...
PM Modi gifts Sindarov's World Cup scoresheet to Uzbek president: Chess becomes a diplomatic bridgePM Modi gifts Sindarov's World Cup scoresheet to Uzbek president: Chess becom...
2026 Chess Olympiad: India and the Battle for Supremacy in SamarkandWhen FIDE released the 2026 Chess Olympiad schedule in Samarkand, I paused at...
When the Scoresheet Becomes a Diplomatic Symbol: Lessons from a Game No One SawI once misplaced the SHB Da Nang match tape, and from that moment I learned...
Samarkand 2026: The 11-Round Schedule, India's Throne, and Sindarov's PressurePeople often ask me: what is there to watch in chess when all you see are...
PM Modi gifts Sindarov's World Cup scoresheet to Uzbek president: Chess diplomacy and the rise of a golden generationI have followed chess for over forty years, and I remember vividly the feelin...
