Chess
Double Agent Solves a 58-Year-Old Chess Problem: 63 Checking Moves Is the Maximum, While 364 Remains Only an Upper Bound
Kostya Kavutskiy Joins ChessBase: The Real Chess Deal Lives at the Coach Tier
The Bayonet Attack and the 9...a5 Move in the King's Indian Defense: The Boundary Between Strategy and Tactics
Chess Olympiad 2026: Two Final-Round Draws and the Limits of the Strongest Lineup
2026 Chess Olympiad: India Win 3.5–0.5, Yet the Top Two Boards Stay Silent
Three Moves, Thirty Minutes: Nihal Sarin and India's Medal of Belief
Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo Are 2026 European Club Cup Champions — and Everything We Weren't ToldI opened the headline at two in the morning in Delhi. Two names: Bayegan...
European Club Cup 2026: Three Co-Leaders, Eleven Names, and the Board Nobody PhotographsThere is one board in every team chess event that nobody photographs: board...
The Elephant Gambit and the Business of Selling Surprise in ChessThe clock ticked from 2:58 down to 2:47 and White simply sat there. On the...
ChessBase Magazine #225: When the Publisher Promises Nothing NewIn September, a package from ChessBase arrived in Da Nang. Inside were three...
5 e5! in the Italian Game: how a one-hour product repriced an opening ideaTable four, the third game of Saturday night, in a coffee shop on Nguyen Chi...
Woodward Beats Caruana at the US Championship: The Data Gap Behind a HeadlineOn the feed of an international chess platform, the headline appeared as neat...
Double Agent Solves a 58-Year-Old Chess Problem: 63 Checking Moves Is the Maximum, While 364 Remains Only an Upper BoundI opened the chessboard again near midnight, after finishing the line about a...
The 2026/87 Bundesliga Chessboard: When a Single Clock Decided Relegation FateIn the file of a 2026/87 Bundesliga chess match, there is a line I have read...
Yu Yangyi Defeats Ding Liren at Shenzhen Masters: A Win That Must Be Read With Its Time ControlIn Shenzhen, the game ended and Yu Yangyi left the board with the bearing of ...
The Scotch Game: From Kasparov's Weapon to Mikhalchishin's Defensive LessonIn 2026, in Lyon, the fourteenth game of the world chess championship was...
Kostya Kavutskiy Joins ChessBase: The Real Chess Deal Lives at the Coach TierIn a small chess cafe in Bangalore, I once sat behind a forty-two-year-old...
The Bayonet Attack and the 9...a5 Move in the King's Indian Defense: The Boundary Between Strategy and TacticsLate afternoon at a small chess club on Nguyen Van Linh Street in Da Nang, a...
5.e5! in the Italian Game: The Central Gambit Weapon Sveshnikov Left for Club PlayersLate November 2026, in a small chess club tucked into an alley near the...
Six Videos, Seven Opening Systems: A Defensive Map for Black After 1.d4 d5In a small chess club tucked down an alley in Bangalore, where I sit listenin...
ChessBase Magazine Issue 225: Strategy Lessons, Prague 2026, and the Name Bent Larsen on the CoverThree in the morning in Chengdu, and the city has not yet turned off its...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Training Bundle Named After Bent Larsen and What It Actually HoldsLate at night at the end of the month, a file of a few hundred megabytes...
Daniel King's 60-Minute Najdorf: A Theory Patch and a Mislabelled FileThe wall clock in my editing room in Hai Phong reads 2:14 a.m. The ceiling fa...
European Club Cup 2026: Three Co-Leaders, Eleven Names, and the Board Nobody PhotographsThere is one board in every team chess event that nobody photographs: board...
The Elephant Gambit and the Business of Selling Surprise in ChessThe clock ticked from 2:58 down to 2:47 and White simply sat there. On the...
ChessBase Magazine #225: When the Publisher Promises Nothing NewIn September, a package from ChessBase arrived in Da Nang. Inside were three...
5 e5! in the Italian Game: how a one-hour product repriced an opening ideaTable four, the third game of Saturday night, in a coffee shop on Nguyen Chi...
Woodward Beats Caruana at the US Championship: The Data Gap Behind a HeadlineOn the feed of an international chess platform, the headline appeared as neat...
Double Agent Solves a 58-Year-Old Chess Problem: 63 Checking Moves Is the Maximum, While 364 Remains Only an Upper BoundI opened the chessboard again near midnight, after finishing the line about a...
The 2026/87 Bundesliga Chessboard: When a Single Clock Decided Relegation FateIn the file of a 2026/87 Bundesliga chess match, there is a line I have read...
Yu Yangyi Defeats Ding Liren at Shenzhen Masters: A Win That Must Be Read With Its Time ControlIn Shenzhen, the game ended and Yu Yangyi left the board with the bearing of ...
The Scotch Game: From Kasparov's Weapon to Mikhalchishin's Defensive LessonIn 2026, in Lyon, the fourteenth game of the world chess championship was...
Kostya Kavutskiy Joins ChessBase: The Real Chess Deal Lives at the Coach TierIn a small chess cafe in Bangalore, I once sat behind a forty-two-year-old...
The Bayonet Attack and the 9...a5 Move in the King's Indian Defense: The Boundary Between Strategy and TacticsLate afternoon at a small chess club on Nguyen Van Linh Street in Da Nang, a...
5.e5! in the Italian Game: The Central Gambit Weapon Sveshnikov Left for Club PlayersLate November 2026, in a small chess club tucked into an alley near the...
Six Videos, Seven Opening Systems: A Defensive Map for Black After 1.d4 d5In a small chess club tucked down an alley in Bangalore, where I sit listenin...
ChessBase Magazine Issue 225: Strategy Lessons, Prague 2026, and the Name Bent Larsen on the CoverThree in the morning in Chengdu, and the city has not yet turned off its...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Training Bundle Named After Bent Larsen and What It Actually HoldsLate at night at the end of the month, a file of a few hundred megabytes...
Daniel King's 60-Minute Najdorf: A Theory Patch and a Mislabelled FileThe wall clock in my editing room in Hai Phong reads 2:14 a.m. The ceiling fa...