Chess
A False FIDE Presidency Headline and a FRITZ 20 Promotional Payload: The 3 A.M. VerificationAt three in the morning, a link dropped into my chess group in Shanghai. The...
Total Chess and Budapest 2026: A Unified-Rating Headline With No BodyOn 29 August 2026, a press digest went out about a chess event in Budapest...
27 Miniatures and 10 Opening Articles: Behind the European Club Cup Headline Lies a Product CatalogueWhen a specialist magazine uses European Club Cup results as its headline but...
Misleading chess report: A FIDE headline wrongly attached to King's Indian Defense opening contentMisleading chess report: A FIDE headline wrongly attached to King's Indian...
Nihal Sarin Drops +2: India Fall to Uzbekistan and the Olympiad Title Hangs by a ThreadThe clock showed exactly thirty minutes remaining for Nihal Sarin. On the...
Samarkand Round 4: Eight-Way Tie and the Headline Hook of ChessBase Issue 225Round 4 of an open tournament in Samarkand closed with eight players tied at...
King's Indian: 9...a5 and the 'Antidote' Puzzle for the Bayonet AttackI remember a rainy night in Da Nang, a computer screen reopened an old King's...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: A Chess “Antidote” With No Author, No Data, and No Name to Sign ItTwo in the morning, and I was still rewinding the tape. Not a world final, bu...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026, 27 Miniatures and the Craft of Opening PreparationChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026, 27 Miniatures and the Craft of Opening...
When 4-0 Becomes an Empty Number: Lessons from Samarkand Women's Chess Round 1That summer in V-League I learned one thing: a formation only looks good when...
The 2026 Transfer Window: Read the Release Clause and the Wage Bill Before You Believe the RumourAt 1:20 in the morning on a Tuesday in the middle of the 2026 summer transfer...
9...a5 in the Bayonet Attack: A Black Solution or an Unverified Product?On move nine, when White's b2-pawn steps to b4, the hall goes quiet the way...
46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand: India and the Task of Defending a Historic Double GoldIn September 2026, in Budapest, India's top board finished the final game and...


