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A Sixty-Minute Patch for the Najdorf: Daniel King and the Craft of Maintaining a Battlefront2026-10-21White Nights in Saint Petersburg, and the newsroom is down to the hum of a...
European Club Cup 2026: Bayegan Pendik's 2715 Elo and the 65-Point Gap on Every Board2026-10-21The results sheet went up on the wooden wall at 21:47. One hundred and eight...
The Scotch Opening: How Kasparov Revived a Forgotten Opening and Forced Chess to Rethink Defense2026-10-15In 2026, at the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and...
6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: Record 140 Teams Compete2026-10-15The 6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners has official...
A Sixty-Minute Patch for the Najdorf: Daniel King and the Craft of Maintaining a BattlefrontWhite Nights in Saint Petersburg, and the newsroom is down to the hum of a...
European Club Cup 2026: Bayegan Pendik's 2715 Elo and the 65-Point Gap on Every BoardThe results sheet went up on the wooden wall at 21:47. One hundred and eight...
The 60-Minute Scandinavian Defense: A Practical Promise and a Credibility GapThe video runs 60 minutes. One board. One defensive idea for Black after 1.e4...
The Reckless 1...d5 and the Market of Illusion: When Chess Sells Surprise in 60 MinutesIn the commentary booth in Nizhny Novgorod in 2026, I once pressed a stopwatc...
The Scotch Opening: How Kasparov Revived a Forgotten Opening and Forced Chess to Rethink DefenseIn 2026, at the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and...
6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: Record 140 Teams CompeteThe 6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners has official...
Pin and Win: The Secret Behind Karsten Müller's 'Endgame Expert' TitleThere is an interesting paradox in the world of chess: those called 'endgame...
Pin and Win: Karsten Müller, the Endgame, and the Knowledge Economy of ChessIn the winter of 2026, during a live commentary shift for VTC, I sat silent f...
Perfect Scores at the US Chess Championship and the Problem of Defending Against 1.d4 d5On the scoreboard of the US Chess Championship, two names sit side by side wi...
Bodhana Sivanandan: The 11-Year-Old Who 'Beats the Sicilian with 3.Bc4' and the 2504 Performance Shock at the Samarkand 2026 Chess OlympiadSAMARKAND, UZBEKISTAN — SEPTEMBER 24, 2026 In round seven of the 2026 Chess...
Learning Strategy from Bent Larsen: When Chess Memory Gets Packaged for SaleLearning Strategy from Bent Larsen: When Chess Memory Gets Packaged for Sale ...
The Najdorf Sicilian and the Trade of Updating Theory: Notes from a Vietnamese Chess CornerThe stadium is empty, but the applause of 2026 still echoes in every old...
The Scandinavian Defense and the Lesson from Carlsen's Unacknowledged MoveIn my personal database, there is a file I named carlsen_offbeat.pgn. It...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026, Saint Louis and the Paid Training Material ProblemLate September night, I sat on the balcony looking down at the empty Tran Phu...
Vietnam win ASEAN Cup 2026: transition data and the price of Nguyen Xuan Son's 712 minutesNguyen Xuan Son went down midway through the first half of the second leg on...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Hidden Sicilian and the Gap Between the Cover and the ContentsI read the line "Hidden highlights from the Olympiad: A Sicilan Brilliancy"...
India in Samarkand: Six Individual Medals and the Oversized Shadow of BudapestIn the final round in Samarkand, the world champion was sitting on board four...
