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US Championships: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and the Opening Course Hidden Behind the Headline
US Championships: Woodward downs Caruana, Lee widens the gap — reading a sports headline closely
The Scotch Opening: A Move Forgotten for Nearly 150 Years and Kasparov's 2026 Revival
Yu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren at Shenzhen Masters: A Real Result in a Commercial Wrapper
ChessBase Adds Kostya Kavutskiy: When Chess's Transfer Window Happens on the Keyboard
ChessBase Magazine #225: a European Club Cup headline wrapped around a product pageI read the headline three times before opening the body. European Club Cup:...
US Championships: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and the Opening Course Hidden Behind the HeadlineThe day I opened the headline "Woodward takes down Caruana, Lee widens the ga...
US Championships: Woodward downs Caruana, Lee widens the gap — reading a sports headline closelyIn the playing hall, no applause rang out when the move was played. A young...
The Scotch Opening: A Move Forgotten for Nearly 150 Years and Kasparov's 2026 RevivalPeople called it a shock; I call it data that had not yet been read. In the...
Yu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren at Shenzhen Masters: A Real Result in a Commercial WrapperThe result that should have belonged to the sports pages reached me through a...
The Scotch Opening and the Fear That Went Cold: When Kasparov Handed Back a BladeNew York, October 2026. Garry Kasparov, playing White, pushed his pawn to e4....
ChessBase Adds Kostya Kavutskiy: When Chess's Transfer Window Happens on the KeyboardEleven at night in Chengdu, I open ChessBase's new video package and press...
UzChess Cup 2026: Jacobson, Vakhidov and the Lesson of a Short GameA chess game ended before the spectators had settled into their seats. At the...
ChessBase Magazine Issue 225: "From Dusk till Dawn" and the Landscape of the Chess Training Content MarketOn April 15, 2026, the publisher ChessBase announced the 225th issue of its...
India's Third Gaprindashvili Trophy: Two-Section Depth and the Price of an Empty SummitThe main stage of the 2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand closed in the women's...
The 9...a5 Move in the King's Indian Defense and the Limits of the "Escape from Rote Theory" PromiseIn my old notebook, page seventy-three holds a single line: 9...a5. I wrote i...
Erdoğmuş and the 2,731 ELO at the 2026 Olympiad: An Unverified RecordI sat in front of the screen following board one of the Turkish team at the...
After 1.d4 d5: Seven Systems That Dodge the Queen's Gambit and the Test for BlackIn 2026, at an open tournament in Da Nang, I sat behind board 7 and counted....
India at Samarkand: Silver, Bronze and the Trap of an Impossible BenchmarkIn a small technical room in Da Nang, I keep an odd habit: noting the exact...
ChessBase Magazine 225: A Sicilian Brilliancy and the Gap Behind the Olympiad HeadlineThe chessboard back home had no grandstand, but every time a piece moved...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Sicilian Behind the Promotional CurtainAn Old Question in an Old Studio In 2026, I was sitting in VTC's studio, the...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Content Map Behind the “Sicilian Brilliancy” HeadlineOn Thursday evening, in an advanced chess class in Nha Trang, a...
When the Chess Data Pipeline Returns Zero: A Lesson in Information IntegrityTwenty years ago, when I was a chess player moving into tournament organizati...
Andrew Martin's 60-Minute Scandinavian: Carlsen as a Trust Anchor and the Missing VerificationIn the summer of 2026, between days of recording a documentary series about...
Timur Turlov in the Headline, Valeri Lilov in the Body: The Credibility Gap of an Opening CourseThe reader clicks a headline bearing the name Timur Turlov. They expect an...
The Scotch Is No Longer Frightening: Mikhalchishin and How to Neutralise Kasparov's LegacyNew York, October 2026. Garry Kasparov sits across from Anatoly Karpov. Inste...
US Championships: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and the Opening Course Hidden Behind the HeadlineThe day I opened the headline "Woodward takes down Caruana, Lee widens the ga...
US Championships: Woodward downs Caruana, Lee widens the gap — reading a sports headline closelyIn the playing hall, no applause rang out when the move was played. A young...
The Scotch Opening: A Move Forgotten for Nearly 150 Years and Kasparov's 2026 RevivalPeople called it a shock; I call it data that had not yet been read. In the...
Yu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren at Shenzhen Masters: A Real Result in a Commercial WrapperThe result that should have belonged to the sports pages reached me through a...
The Scotch Opening and the Fear That Went Cold: When Kasparov Handed Back a BladeNew York, October 2026. Garry Kasparov, playing White, pushed his pawn to e4....
ChessBase Adds Kostya Kavutskiy: When Chess's Transfer Window Happens on the KeyboardEleven at night in Chengdu, I open ChessBase's new video package and press...
UzChess Cup 2026: Jacobson, Vakhidov and the Lesson of a Short GameA chess game ended before the spectators had settled into their seats. At the...
ChessBase Magazine Issue 225: "From Dusk till Dawn" and the Landscape of the Chess Training Content MarketOn April 15, 2026, the publisher ChessBase announced the 225th issue of its...
India's Third Gaprindashvili Trophy: Two-Section Depth and the Price of an Empty SummitThe main stage of the 2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand closed in the women's...
The 9...a5 Move in the King's Indian Defense and the Limits of the "Escape from Rote Theory" PromiseIn my old notebook, page seventy-three holds a single line: 9...a5. I wrote i...
Erdoğmuş and the 2,731 ELO at the 2026 Olympiad: An Unverified RecordI sat in front of the screen following board one of the Turkish team at the...
After 1.d4 d5: Seven Systems That Dodge the Queen's Gambit and the Test for BlackIn 2026, at an open tournament in Da Nang, I sat behind board 7 and counted....
India at Samarkand: Silver, Bronze and the Trap of an Impossible BenchmarkIn a small technical room in Da Nang, I keep an odd habit: noting the exact...
ChessBase Magazine 225: A Sicilian Brilliancy and the Gap Behind the Olympiad HeadlineThe chessboard back home had no grandstand, but every time a piece moved...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Sicilian Behind the Promotional CurtainAn Old Question in an Old Studio In 2026, I was sitting in VTC's studio, the...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Content Map Behind the “Sicilian Brilliancy” HeadlineOn Thursday evening, in an advanced chess class in Nha Trang, a...
When the Chess Data Pipeline Returns Zero: A Lesson in Information IntegrityTwenty years ago, when I was a chess player moving into tournament organizati...
Andrew Martin's 60-Minute Scandinavian: Carlsen as a Trust Anchor and the Missing VerificationIn the summer of 2026, between days of recording a documentary series about...
Timur Turlov in the Headline, Valeri Lilov in the Body: The Credibility Gap of an Opening CourseThe reader clicks a headline bearing the name Timur Turlov. They expect an...
The Scotch Is No Longer Frightening: Mikhalchishin and How to Neutralise Kasparov's LegacyNew York, October 2026. Garry Kasparov sits across from Anatoly Karpov. Inste...