Chess
ChessThree in Four Female Chess Players Report Bias or Harassment: The FIDE Survey and Its SilencesIn the hall of an open chess tournament in Saint Petersburg, in winter, I sat...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: An 'Academy' Banner and a Magazine Grading ItselfThe Chess Festival Prague 2026 closed on a Sunday afternoon, and on my desk i...
ChessAn Anti-Bayonet DVD: Selling 9...a5 on Belief, Not on DataOn the third shelf of a small chess bookshop on Huaqiang North Road in...
ChessBodhana Sivanandan at 11: Three IM Norms in Three Months and a 38-Year Gap Closed in BudvaThe game ended on move 32. On board one, the black pieces of Bodhana Sivanand...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: Three Co-Leaders, Eleven Teams Level, and a Standings Table Nobody Has VerifiedOn 20 October 2026 I opened the European Club Cup round report on my second...
ChessThe 5 e5! thrust in the Modern Italian: why it wins at weekend opens and dies at elite levelA fourth-round game at a weekend open in Moscow, in November. White was a...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: The Headline Promises a Tournament, the Body Delivers a CatalogueThe word "comfortable" sits fourth in the headline. European Club Cup:...
ChessThe Ninth Move and the Blank Between Seven and Nine: Reading a King's Indian DVD with a Data EyeSeven moves, then a blank. In the three-page product sheet of a King's Indian...
ChessThe Pawn on Move Two: The Elephant Gambit and the Price of SurpriseThe page opens with the word Budva. I opened three tabs at once, out of habit...
ChessThe Anonymous Gamble: When the Elephant Gambit Steps Out of the ShadowsIn sixty minutes of video, a move forgotten by an entire century stands up. I...
ChessKing's Indian Defense: 9...a5, a Strategic Sideline and Its Unverified ClaimsOne sentence in the product description made me stop longer than the entire...
ChessUS Championships: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and the Noise Nobody Bothers to FilterUS Championships: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and the...
ChessUS Championships: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the GapWhen Fabiano Caruana leaned back in his chair in a pivotal round of the US...
ChessThe 2026/87 Bundesliga Arrival-Time Dispute: When Rules Become WeaponsI remember the first time I read through the case file of the 2026/87 German...
ChessThe 'Un-winnable' Problem for White: Insights from the Scandinavian System and the Lesson of Street ChessI remember a rainy evening in Nha Trang, sitting in an old café on Tran Phu...
ChessWesley So and Awonder Liang Keep Perfect Scores at the US Chess Championship: Behind the Scoreboard Lies a Different StoryAt the US national chess championship, the electronic scoreboard shows two...
ChessThe Strange Comforts of Superstition: 5.e5 and the Old Promise of the Scotch GambitWinter 2026, at a small chess club on Rubinstein Street in Saint Petersburg, ...
ChessKavutskiy Joins FritzTrainer: Inside the Global Chess Course RaceIn 2026, when I first sat down to commentate a chess game for VTC, people...
ChessChessBase Signs Kostya Kavutskiy: When Chess Sells Storytellers Instead of MovesI remember a winter evening in Saint Petersburg, snow falling so thick that...
ChessKostya Kavutskiy Debuts Two FritzTrainer Courses: ChessBase Redraws the Chess Content RaceIn late 2026, while cross-checking course catalogues on the major chess...
ChessAfter 1.d4 d5: When White Sidesteps Slav Theory, Black Must Draw His Own Spatial MapIn the record of a game from an open tournament in Da Nang that I have...
ChessGame of the Week #743: Gaal vs Smeets and 743 Weeks of a Wednesday HabitOn a Wednesday evening in Amsterdam, a man reopens a chess game he never...
ChessBodhana Sivanandan, 11, and the 3.Bc4 Move That Defies TheoryOn the pairing board of the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, in the autumn of 202...
ChessEngland's Board One: Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, Scores 6/7 with a 2504 Performance at the Samarkand 2026 OlympiadIn Samarkand, when the scoreboard for the 2026 Chess Olympiad closed after...
ChessA Misplaced Name: FIDE, Turlov, and the King's Indian Nobody MentionedFor the past three months, I have made a habit of saving the chess headlines ...
ChessChess: A Misattributed 'FIDE President' Headline and the King's Indian Defense Opening DVD StoryA chess article circulating through content-aggregation channels has placed t...


