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ChessDaniel King's Najdorf Update: When Opening Theory Becomes an Endless Arms Race2026-10-22On a November evening, I sat before my computer screen in Da Nang, rewinding...
ChessThe Scotch Opening After 35 Years: From Kasparov's Weapon to Mikhalchishin's Decoding Lesson2026-10-12New York, October 2026. In a game where Garry Kasparov should logically have...
ChessWorld Chess: A Serious Misstatement About the FIDE President and the Truth Behind a King's Indian Opening DVD2026-10-08In the international chess world, errors about the senior leadership of the...
Two Champions and the Silence Behind the 2026 European Club Cup HeadlineI read that headline on a Tuesday morning, with the coffee still hot and the...
The Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Data Gap Nobody MentionsOver 11 days in May 2026, 77 chess teams from five continents competed online...
Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, breaks Judit Polgar's 38-year record to become the youngest female International Master in historyBodhana Sivanandan, 11, became the youngest female player in history to...
Carlsen: 'AI Shows Humans Are Not That Good'I rewound the tape of Magnus Carlsen's interview with AS dated October 21, an...
Daniel King's Najdorf Update: When Opening Theory Becomes an Endless Arms RaceOn a November evening, I sat before my computer screen in Da Nang, rewinding...
The Scotch Opening After 35 Years: From Kasparov's Weapon to Mikhalchishin's Decoding LessonNew York, October 2026. In a game where Garry Kasparov should logically have...
The Scotch Opening and Mikhalchishin's Antidote: When an Opening Stops Being FearsomeNew York, October 2026. Garry Kasparov pushed his pawn to e4. Anatoly Karpov...
5.e5: The Romantic Pawn Thrust and the Strange Comfort of Superstition at the BoardIn a small chess club tucked down a narrow alley in a port city, every...
Awonder Liang Beats Hans Niemann in Round One of the US Chess Championship: When the Headline Says More Than the MoveA small detail, almost meaningless to anyone who does not follow chess: when...
1.d4 d5 and the Great Theory Escape: When White Chooses Systems Over Main LinesThere is a moment I remember vividly, in a small analysis room in Shenzhen,...
When White Refuses Theory After 1.d4 d5: Seven Systems That Sidestep the Main Line and Black's PlansAt round seven of the 2026 national championship, I sat in the VTC commentary...
Bodhana Sivanandan and the 3.Bc4 Move: The Eleven-Year-Old on Board OneThe Samarkand hall at night has a sound of its own. Not the roar of a stadium...
World Chess: A Serious Misstatement About the FIDE President and the Truth Behind a King's Indian Opening DVDIn the international chess world, errors about the senior leadership of the...
The 9...a5 Move and the Name Lost on FIDE's ThroneI rewound the SEA Games 29 footage to find what people had forgotten. This...
From Dusk till Dawn: 27 Miniatures and the Art of Beautiful MistakesThe tournament hall in Prague has a sound of its own at night. It is the soun...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Promise in Bent Larsen's Name, Prague 2026, and the Real Value of a Training ProductIn a small apartment facing the sea in Da Nang, I opened my laptop at six in...
Echoes of Empty Stands: When Najdorf Theory Becomes a Graveyard of MemorySixty minutes. That is the entire runtime of a product called an "update" to...
9...a5: The Quiet Move and the Calculated Retreat of the King's Indian DefenseWinter in Petersburg, late 2026. I sat in the seventh row of a small open...
