Chess
The Elephant Gambit: A Surprise Weapon and the Trap Hidden in Move Two
Scandinavian in 60 Minutes: The Promise of Solidity and the Gap After Move Three
The 6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: A Record 140 Teams and the Gaps That Still Need Verification
Grandmaster Karsten Müller: The Endgame Expert Endorsed by Magnus Carlsen
Daniel King and the Najdorf Update: Five Hot Lines, One Stray Headline
The Elephant Gambit: A Surprise Weapon and the Trap Hidden in Move TwoI remember an evening at a seaside chess club in Nha Trang, when a 19-year-ol...
Andrew Martin’s 60-Minute Elephant Gambit Video: Selling Surprise, Not Theoretical DepthA 60-minute chess instructional product is being marketed as a surprise weapo...
The Scotch Game, Kasparov 2026, and 60 Minutes of a CoachAutumn 2026, Lyon. Garry Kasparov pushed 3.d4 after three opening moves and t...
Carlsen: 'AI shows humans are not that good'In 2026, I sat in the editing room, rewinding and replaying the SEA Games 29...
European Club Cup 2026: Bayegan Pendik, a 2715 Average and the Limits of a Paper RosterBudva, the round-3 pairing board. Twenty-five teams sit on 2/2 after two...
The Scandinavian in 60 Minutes: IM Andrew Martin's Promise and the Hole in the MiddlegameThe course page opens with a headline that made me read it a second time: an...
Scandinavian in 60 Minutes: The Promise of Solidity and the Gap After Move ThreeOne Hour and One Third Move October fog comes down fast in Saint Petersburg,...
The Elephant Gambit: A 60-Minute Weapon and the Price of SurpriseBlack pushes 2...d5 on move two, leaves a pawn hanging in the centre, and...
9...a5 and the Escape from Memorized Theory in the King's Indian DefenseIt was a Wednesday evening in late October, in the training room of a small...
Two Top Seeds Fall at Atyrau Masters: When a Headline Hides the Whole BoardIn the opening round of the Atyrau Masters, the two top seeds left the board...
The Scandinavian Defense, the FIDE Resolution and a Misattached Headline: Re-reading a Chess Dossier Through DataIn 60 minutes, you can learn an entire opening system and play it the same da...
The 6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: A Record 140 Teams and the Gaps That Still Need VerificationThat V-League summer taught me one thing: a formation only looks beautiful wh...
From Bodhana to Bundesliga 2026/87: When the Rule Is Written One Way and Applied AnotherThe match started late. A grandmaster was said not to have arrived on time....
Grandmaster Karsten Müller: The Endgame Expert Endorsed by Magnus CarlsenKarsten Müller, a German chess grandmaster, is widely recognized as one of th...
Daniel King and the Najdorf Update: Five Hot Lines, One Stray HeadlineI opened a chess news page one morning, and the headline hit me: "Bundesliga:...
Liang Beats Niemann at the US Chess Championship: The Game, the Headline, and the Quiet Current of an IndustryI once sat close enough to hear a chess player swallow before a decisive move...
Liang Beats Niemann and the Game With No Moves: What Really Lies Behind a HeadlineThere is a paradox I learned after many years of sitting at the analysis desk...
US Chess Championship: Awonder Liang Beats Hans Niemann in the Opening Round, and the Gap Between a Headline and the BoardI remember clearly that night when I sat in front of the screen, headphones...
Eleven Years Old at Board One: Bodhana Sivanandan's Game and the Trap Called 2504In Samarkand, there was a chair I kept looking back at. It sat at board one o...
The 18% Divergence and a Name on the Wrong Chair: When a Headline Betrays Its Own BodyThere are pieces that force me to reopen my personal database from the very...
US Chess Championship 2026: Caruana, Niemann, and the $400,000 QuestionAmid an empty stadium, data is the only spectator left. But at Saint Louis on...
A 60-Minute Scandinavian Defense Video: A Time-Saving System and the Claims Worth VerifyingIn a video that runs exactly 60 minutes, IM Andrew Martin opens with the move...
Andrew Martin’s 60-Minute Elephant Gambit Video: Selling Surprise, Not Theoretical DepthA 60-minute chess instructional product is being marketed as a surprise weapo...
The Scotch Game, Kasparov 2026, and 60 Minutes of a CoachAutumn 2026, Lyon. Garry Kasparov pushed 3.d4 after three opening moves and t...
Carlsen: 'AI shows humans are not that good'In 2026, I sat in the editing room, rewinding and replaying the SEA Games 29...
European Club Cup 2026: Bayegan Pendik, a 2715 Average and the Limits of a Paper RosterBudva, the round-3 pairing board. Twenty-five teams sit on 2/2 after two...
The Scandinavian in 60 Minutes: IM Andrew Martin's Promise and the Hole in the MiddlegameThe course page opens with a headline that made me read it a second time: an...
Scandinavian in 60 Minutes: The Promise of Solidity and the Gap After Move ThreeOne Hour and One Third Move October fog comes down fast in Saint Petersburg,...
The Elephant Gambit: A 60-Minute Weapon and the Price of SurpriseBlack pushes 2...d5 on move two, leaves a pawn hanging in the centre, and...
9...a5 and the Escape from Memorized Theory in the King's Indian DefenseIt was a Wednesday evening in late October, in the training room of a small...
Two Top Seeds Fall at Atyrau Masters: When a Headline Hides the Whole BoardIn the opening round of the Atyrau Masters, the two top seeds left the board...
The Scandinavian Defense, the FIDE Resolution and a Misattached Headline: Re-reading a Chess Dossier Through DataIn 60 minutes, you can learn an entire opening system and play it the same da...
The 6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: A Record 140 Teams and the Gaps That Still Need VerificationThat V-League summer taught me one thing: a formation only looks beautiful wh...
From Bodhana to Bundesliga 2026/87: When the Rule Is Written One Way and Applied AnotherThe match started late. A grandmaster was said not to have arrived on time....
Grandmaster Karsten Müller: The Endgame Expert Endorsed by Magnus CarlsenKarsten Müller, a German chess grandmaster, is widely recognized as one of th...
Daniel King and the Najdorf Update: Five Hot Lines, One Stray HeadlineI opened a chess news page one morning, and the headline hit me: "Bundesliga:...
Liang Beats Niemann at the US Chess Championship: The Game, the Headline, and the Quiet Current of an IndustryI once sat close enough to hear a chess player swallow before a decisive move...
Liang Beats Niemann and the Game With No Moves: What Really Lies Behind a HeadlineThere is a paradox I learned after many years of sitting at the analysis desk...
US Chess Championship: Awonder Liang Beats Hans Niemann in the Opening Round, and the Gap Between a Headline and the BoardI remember clearly that night when I sat in front of the screen, headphones...
Eleven Years Old at Board One: Bodhana Sivanandan's Game and the Trap Called 2504In Samarkand, there was a chair I kept looking back at. It sat at board one o...
The 18% Divergence and a Name on the Wrong Chair: When a Headline Betrays Its Own BodyThere are pieces that force me to reopen my personal database from the very...
US Chess Championship 2026: Caruana, Niemann, and the $400,000 QuestionAmid an empty stadium, data is the only spectator left. But at Saint Louis on...
A 60-Minute Scandinavian Defense Video: A Time-Saving System and the Claims Worth VerifyingIn a video that runs exactly 60 minutes, IM Andrew Martin opens with the move...