Chess
ChessA Clock That Hanged a Whole Season: The 2026/87 Bundesliga Case and the Limits of Written RulesThe match in the 2026/87 Bundesliga season started late. Not late because...
ChessThe Scotch Opening: Kasparov's 2026 Ghost and Mikhalchishin's Answer for BlackFour moves sit neatly on the board: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4. In a small room i...
ChessWesley So and Awonder Liang Stay Perfect at the US Chess Championship: A View from the Forgotten Sidelines After 1.d4 d5Night fell in Binh Duong, and I reopened the scoreboard of the US Chess...
ChessUzChess Cup: A Short Game and the Crack Between Title and MoveIn the playing hall of the UzChess Cup, the game between Brandon Jacobson and...
ChessFormer badminton athlete calls chess one of the least expressive sports: A signal worth hearing or a claim without data?At a time when online chess is still growing, a comment from outside the spor...
ChessChessBase Magazine Issue 225: When the Name Bent Larsen Carries an Entire ProductI opened the CBV file of ChessBase Magazine issue 225 on a rainy evening in D...
ChessThe Scandinavian Defense: The Super Knight and the Lesson of Choosing Less TheoryHook On a rainy night in Chengdu, I sat in the corner of a chess club and...
ChessFrom Kasparov's 2026 Game to an Anti-Scotch Lesson: When 'FIDE Ratings' Contains Not a Single RatingI rewind the tape of the game between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov at th...
ChessThe Italian Game, the 5.e5 Move, and the Echo from Empty Club StandsThe pawn came to rest on e5, and the whole room went quiet. It was a Thursday...
ChessWomen's Chess in Toronto: Tan Zhongyi and the Quiet CoronationIn April 2026, at a hotel in Toronto, eight female chess players sat down at...
ChessIndia at the Samarkand Olympiad: When Silver Is Misread Against a Benchmark That Never ExistedIn the final game on board 4, D Gukesh sat motionless for seconds before...
ChessSicily, the Olympiad and the Missing Women's Voices: Reading ChessBase Magazine #225 from Da NangOn 22 September 2026, at the Hungexpo Congress Centre in Budapest, the final...
ChessSamarkand Chess Olympiad 2026: India Draws in the One Round It Needed to WinBoard 4, round 11. Gukesh D — the reigning world champion — sat across from...
ChessKing's Indian Defence: Move 9...a5 and the Escape from the Engine Theory MachineAmid an old pile of video recordings, I found a segment with no cheering. The...
ChessDing Liren, Gukesh, and the Variable Every Chess Data Model MissedSingapore, the night of December 12, 2026. Game 14 of the World Chess...
ChessNihal Sarin, the Last Thirty Minutes, and the Three Moves That Cracked India's CrownThirty minutes is a long time at this level. Long enough for a young...
ChessGukesh Chose Board 4 Himself: The World Champion and the Depth Equation of a TeamI read India's board-order sheet three times in one morning. The first time, ...
ChessChess 2026: Two Thrones and the Trap of Under-Evidenced ConclusionsIn June 2026, I opened the spreadsheet our data-extraction system had just...
ChessThe Last Move: Karsten Müller and 25 Years of Bringing the Endgame Out of the ShadowsIn my personal spreadsheet, created in 2026 and updated continuously for...
ChessNguyen Cong Phuong: Data never forgets, but Vietnamese football has forgotten?There is a number that has haunted me for the past three weeks: 0.46. That is...
ChessEvent Clickbait: The Truth Behind the Article 'Carlsen Beats Vachier-Lagrave at Global Chess League'I just opened another browser tab to verify the information. Before writing...
