Chess
European Club Cup 2026: Bayegan at 2715 Elo and the 65-Point Gap Per BoardBudva, the morning of round three. The pairing sheet taped to the hotel...
Decoding How ChessBase Sold a Chess Event With 27 Quick WinsThe European Club Cup concluded with comfortable wins for the favourites. Tha...
Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027 and the Scandinavian Defense: When a Chess Headline Stops Being DataA product page opens with the line “Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027”, then...
US Chess Championship: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap, and the Move Nobody Prepared ForThe tournament clock ticked to the fourteenth second. Fabiano Caruana, a form...
US Championships: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and the Game Beyond the BoardAndy Woodward placed a finger on his king and stopped. No fist pump, no shout...
Woodward Beats Caruana, and the Void Behind the HeadlineOn that news page, the headline sat directly above an advertisement: “US...
Atyrau Masters: Top Two Seeds Defeated in Opening RoundsThe Atyrau Masters had barely begun when both top seeds fell in the opening...
The FIDE General Assembly and the Push for Shorter Time Controls: The Opening-Preparation Race Under the Clock60 minutes. That is the number a chess-opening instructional video offers as ...
Liang Beats Niemann: When a Chess Game Is Packaged as a ProductLiang Beats Niemann: When a Chess Game Is Packaged as a Product I read that...
ChessBase Calls Up Kostya Kavutskiy: The Coaching Board Switches to Brand RulesOn ChessBase's product page, there is a small detail most readers scroll past...
Game of the Week #743: When ChessBase Sells a Habit, Not a GameWednesday evening, the clock on my laptop ticked over to nine. A push...
Bodhana Sivanandan, 3.Bc4 and Board One: Re-reading the 2504 Performance at the 2026 Samarkand OlympiadAt round seven of the 2026 Samarkand Chess Olympiad, the England women's team...
3.Bc4 in Samarkand: An 11-Year-Old on England's Women's Board OneIn round seven, I reopened the replay of the women's board-one game and froze...
The 2026 U.S. Chess Championship: 400,000 Dollars, Twelve Seats, and a Generational Handover in Saint LouisIn October 2026, amid empty stadiums during the pandemic, I sat alone in a...
Decoding How ChessBase Sold a Chess Event With 27 Quick WinsThe European Club Cup concluded with comfortable wins for the favourites. Tha...
Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027 and the Scandinavian Defense: When a Chess Headline Stops Being DataA product page opens with the line “Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027”, then...
US Chess Championship: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap, and the Move Nobody Prepared ForThe tournament clock ticked to the fourteenth second. Fabiano Caruana, a form...
US Championships: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and the Game Beyond the BoardAndy Woodward placed a finger on his king and stopped. No fist pump, no shout...
Woodward Beats Caruana, and the Void Behind the HeadlineOn that news page, the headline sat directly above an advertisement: “US...
Atyrau Masters: Top Two Seeds Defeated in Opening RoundsThe Atyrau Masters had barely begun when both top seeds fell in the opening...
The FIDE General Assembly and the Push for Shorter Time Controls: The Opening-Preparation Race Under the Clock60 minutes. That is the number a chess-opening instructional video offers as ...
Liang Beats Niemann: When a Chess Game Is Packaged as a ProductLiang Beats Niemann: When a Chess Game Is Packaged as a Product I read that...
ChessBase Calls Up Kostya Kavutskiy: The Coaching Board Switches to Brand RulesOn ChessBase's product page, there is a small detail most readers scroll past...
Game of the Week #743: When ChessBase Sells a Habit, Not a GameWednesday evening, the clock on my laptop ticked over to nine. A push...
Bodhana Sivanandan, 3.Bc4 and Board One: Re-reading the 2504 Performance at the 2026 Samarkand OlympiadAt round seven of the 2026 Samarkand Chess Olympiad, the England women's team...
3.Bc4 in Samarkand: An 11-Year-Old on England's Women's Board OneIn round seven, I reopened the replay of the women's board-one game and froze...
The 2026 U.S. Chess Championship: 400,000 Dollars, Twelve Seats, and a Generational Handover in Saint LouisIn October 2026, amid empty stadiums during the pandemic, I sat alone in a...