Chess
Sixty Minutes Cannot Hold the Najdorf: Daniel King's Update, Theory Turnover and the Club Player's Ledger
Named 'Najdorf Poisoned Queen', Teaching the Elephant Gambit: The Technical and Market Ledger of a 60-Minute Chess Course
Carlsen's No. 1 Rating Now Runs on a Curated Calendar, Not Match Play
Wrong FIDE President in the Headline, a Fritz 20 Advert in the Body: Auditing a Chess Story That Wasn't
The Three Percent Tiebreak: Wesley So's Fourth US Title and the One Fact in Nine
A 60-Minute Course on the Elephant Gambit: An 'Underrated' Claim Without a Single Sample Line
Sixty Minutes Cannot Hold the Najdorf: Daniel King's Update, Theory Turnover and the Club Player's LedgerSixty Minutes Cannot Hold the Najdorf: Daniel King's Update, Theory Turnover...
Named 'Najdorf Poisoned Queen', Teaching the Elephant Gambit: The Technical and Market Ledger of a 60-Minute Chess CourseI was opening a landing page for an opening course. Across the top, in large...
The Three Percent Tiebreak: Wesley So's Fourth US Title and the One Fact in NineNine information points. One of them concerned Wesley So, Fabiano Caruana and...
A 60-Minute Course on the Elephant Gambit: An 'Underrated' Claim Without a Single Sample LineI begin any chess product not with its name but with its move order. The name...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: A Tiebreak Win Over Caruana, and the Record Nobody WroteIt was one in the morning in Ahmedabad, the stream was open, and the only sou...
Carlsen's No. 1 Rating Now Runs on a Curated Calendar, Not Match PlayThe hall in Budapest seated 24 players across classical, rapid and blitz for ...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Four Annotators and One Paper Key: Chess's Archive of Record Against Chess's MarketA slip of paper. Sixteen characters printed on it, and beneath them a sentenc...
Wrong FIDE President in the Headline, a Fritz 20 Advert in the Body: Auditing a Chess Story That Wasn'tLast week a screenshot made the rounds of a Kolkata club group. Across the to...
ChessBase Magazine #225 September Release: Prague 2026, 27 Miniatures and the Price of AnnotationThe fastest item in ChessBase Magazine #225's September release list is the...
The Elephant Gambit: A 60-Minute Course, a Mislabeled Headline, and the Illusion of 'UnderratedIt was eleven at night. I was on the landing page of an opening course, and t...
European Club Cup: Novy Bor and SuperChess Stay Perfect, and a Headline Carrying Two Separate StoriesEuropean Club Cup: Novy Bor and SuperChess Stay Perfect, and a Headline...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian, and a Headline That Belonged to Another StoryAt 2:40 on a Sunday morning a spreadsheet sat open on my laptop. In the left...
Wrong FIDE President in the Headline, Fritz 20 Ad in the Body: A Credibility Test for Chess CoverageOpen the file. The headline says FIDE President Timur Turlov met Cyprus...
Wrong FIDE President in the Headline, a Fritz 20 Advert in the Body: A Content-Audit FileLast Wednesday, at my desk in Bangalore, I opened an online chess item. The...
A Rachel Li Headline, a Scandinavian Defense Ad in the Body: Who Signed This Result?Twelve information points. All twelve carry the same line in the source field...
Budva's 2715: The Real Fight at the European Club Cup Is on Boards Four to SixIt is two in the morning. Back from the commentary booth, in a flat in...
A Media Audit of ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Four Annotators and the 'Latest Trends' ClaimChessBase Magazine #225 carries three hard numbers on its product page — 27...
European Club Cup: Novy Bor and SuperChess Stay 'Perfect', and the 60-Minute Scotch Course Sold Beneath the Headline"European Club Cup: Novy Bor and SuperChess remain perfect." That sentence is...
Named 'Najdorf Poisoned Queen', Teaching the Elephant Gambit: The Technical and Market Ledger of a 60-Minute Chess CourseI was opening a landing page for an opening course. Across the top, in large...
The Three Percent Tiebreak: Wesley So's Fourth US Title and the One Fact in NineNine information points. One of them concerned Wesley So, Fabiano Caruana and...
A 60-Minute Course on the Elephant Gambit: An 'Underrated' Claim Without a Single Sample LineI begin any chess product not with its name but with its move order. The name...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: A Tiebreak Win Over Caruana, and the Record Nobody WroteIt was one in the morning in Ahmedabad, the stream was open, and the only sou...
Carlsen's No. 1 Rating Now Runs on a Curated Calendar, Not Match PlayThe hall in Budapest seated 24 players across classical, rapid and blitz for ...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Four Annotators and One Paper Key: Chess's Archive of Record Against Chess's MarketA slip of paper. Sixteen characters printed on it, and beneath them a sentenc...
Wrong FIDE President in the Headline, a Fritz 20 Advert in the Body: Auditing a Chess Story That Wasn'tLast week a screenshot made the rounds of a Kolkata club group. Across the to...
ChessBase Magazine #225 September Release: Prague 2026, 27 Miniatures and the Price of AnnotationThe fastest item in ChessBase Magazine #225's September release list is the...
The Elephant Gambit: A 60-Minute Course, a Mislabeled Headline, and the Illusion of 'UnderratedIt was eleven at night. I was on the landing page of an opening course, and t...
European Club Cup: Novy Bor and SuperChess Stay Perfect, and a Headline Carrying Two Separate StoriesEuropean Club Cup: Novy Bor and SuperChess Stay Perfect, and a Headline...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian, and a Headline That Belonged to Another StoryAt 2:40 on a Sunday morning a spreadsheet sat open on my laptop. In the left...
Wrong FIDE President in the Headline, Fritz 20 Ad in the Body: A Credibility Test for Chess CoverageOpen the file. The headline says FIDE President Timur Turlov met Cyprus...
Wrong FIDE President in the Headline, a Fritz 20 Advert in the Body: A Content-Audit FileLast Wednesday, at my desk in Bangalore, I opened an online chess item. The...
A Rachel Li Headline, a Scandinavian Defense Ad in the Body: Who Signed This Result?Twelve information points. All twelve carry the same line in the source field...
Budva's 2715: The Real Fight at the European Club Cup Is on Boards Four to SixIt is two in the morning. Back from the commentary booth, in a flat in...
A Media Audit of ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Four Annotators and the 'Latest Trends' ClaimChessBase Magazine #225 carries three hard numbers on its product page — 27...
European Club Cup: Novy Bor and SuperChess Stay 'Perfect', and the 60-Minute Scotch Course Sold Beneath the Headline"European Club Cup: Novy Bor and SuperChess remain perfect." That sentence is...