Chess
ChessPetroff or Scandinavian: The Crack Inside a 60-Minute Opening Course2026-11-07Last night I was reading a course catalogue and stopped at one entry. The...
ChessWei Yi's Lesson with Black: Concede the Queenside, Strike the Kingside2026-11-04A new instructional video has been released around Chinese Grandmaster Wei Yi...
ChessCarlsen: AI Has Shown Humans Are Not That Extraordinary at Chess — The World No. 1 Shifts His Preparation Model and Chases Faster Wins2026-10-31Introduction: A Philosophical Interview With Almost No Competitive Data Magnu...
ChessTwo Kinds of Low-Theory Wins: Germany's Upset and the Scandinavian Defense2026-10-30The headline on my screen was unambiguous: at Round 8 in Samarkand, Germany h...
Petroff or Scandinavian: The Crack Inside a 60-Minute Opening CourseLast night I was reading a course catalogue and stopped at one entry. The...
Contradictory Headlines Between Hong Kong Team Chess and Chinese Rapid Championship: The Unresolved Questions Around Ding Liren's FormA long-standing problem in chess news coverage has suddenly resurfaced. At th...
Wei Yi's Lesson with Black: Concede the Queenside, Strike the KingsideA new instructional video has been released around Chinese Grandmaster Wei Yi...
A Fujairah Headline, A Magazine Body: How Chess's Invisible Sub-Discipline Gets SoldHalf past eleven at night in a Delhi flat, the fridge buzzing, the laptop fan...
Carlsen: AI Has Shown Humans Are Not That Extraordinary at Chess — The World No. 1 Shifts His Preparation Model and Chases Faster WinsIntroduction: A Philosophical Interview With Almost No Competitive Data Magnu...
Two Kinds of Low-Theory Wins: Germany's Upset and the Scandinavian DefenseThe headline on my screen was unambiguous: at Round 8 in Samarkand, Germany h...
Carlsen's Name, No Game: The 60-Minute Scandinavian That Cannot Balance Its BooksChennai, 2026. The press room of the 44th Chess Olympiad—the first staged in...
Giri–Abdusattorov on the Cover, Six Videos Inside: The Ledger of a 'Game of the Week'I set the clock beside me before opening the file. Old habit. The title said...
Giri–Abdusattorov in the Headline, Six Videos in the Body: Auditing the 1.d4 d5 Sideline EconomyTwo in the morning, Mymensingh. A tab is open on a secondhand laptop: «Giri v...
A Saint Louis Headline, A Bulgarian Course: How Advertising Wears the Costume of Chess NewsI opened the page for a tournament. The headline said Clutch Chess, with...
Carlsen's Confession: The Long Game Is Harder Now, So He Plays to Win FasterThere is a page in my notebook where no result is written, only numbers: the...
Magnus's Confession: At 35, the Body, the Preparation, and Chess's New EquationMagnus Carlsen said one sentence that will travel further than everything els...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Zero Moves: What ChessBase Magazine #225's Promotional Page Lets You Count, and What It Doesn'tThe first number on the promotional page for ChessBase Magazine #225 is...
A Benko Repertoire, a Fritz 20 Advertisement: The Page With No Benko Move on ItLast week I opened a chess-software sales page. The headline said it was a...
A Bundesliga Dispute or a Sixty-Minute Gambit: The Chess Economics of a Mislabeled HeadlineFifteen information points, one headline, and an empty chair between them. I...
Contradictory Headlines Between Hong Kong Team Chess and Chinese Rapid Championship: The Unresolved Questions Around Ding Liren's FormA long-standing problem in chess news coverage has suddenly resurfaced. At th...
Wei Yi's Lesson with Black: Concede the Queenside, Strike the KingsideA new instructional video has been released around Chinese Grandmaster Wei Yi...
A Fujairah Headline, A Magazine Body: How Chess's Invisible Sub-Discipline Gets SoldHalf past eleven at night in a Delhi flat, the fridge buzzing, the laptop fan...
Carlsen: AI Has Shown Humans Are Not That Extraordinary at Chess — The World No. 1 Shifts His Preparation Model and Chases Faster WinsIntroduction: A Philosophical Interview With Almost No Competitive Data Magnu...
Two Kinds of Low-Theory Wins: Germany's Upset and the Scandinavian DefenseThe headline on my screen was unambiguous: at Round 8 in Samarkand, Germany h...
Carlsen's Name, No Game: The 60-Minute Scandinavian That Cannot Balance Its BooksChennai, 2026. The press room of the 44th Chess Olympiad—the first staged in...
Giri–Abdusattorov on the Cover, Six Videos Inside: The Ledger of a 'Game of the Week'I set the clock beside me before opening the file. Old habit. The title said...
Giri–Abdusattorov in the Headline, Six Videos in the Body: Auditing the 1.d4 d5 Sideline EconomyTwo in the morning, Mymensingh. A tab is open on a secondhand laptop: «Giri v...
A Saint Louis Headline, A Bulgarian Course: How Advertising Wears the Costume of Chess NewsI opened the page for a tournament. The headline said Clutch Chess, with...
Carlsen's Confession: The Long Game Is Harder Now, So He Plays to Win FasterThere is a page in my notebook where no result is written, only numbers: the...
Magnus's Confession: At 35, the Body, the Preparation, and Chess's New EquationMagnus Carlsen said one sentence that will travel further than everything els...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Zero Moves: What ChessBase Magazine #225's Promotional Page Lets You Count, and What It Doesn'tThe first number on the promotional page for ChessBase Magazine #225 is...
A Benko Repertoire, a Fritz 20 Advertisement: The Page With No Benko Move on ItLast week I opened a chess-software sales page. The headline said it was a...
A Bundesliga Dispute or a Sixty-Minute Gambit: The Chess Economics of a Mislabeled HeadlineFifteen information points, one headline, and an empty chair between them. I...