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ChessA Najdorf Poster, an Elephant Gambit Packet: The Scorecard of a Sixty-Minute Course2026-10-23Ahmedabad, late at night. I opened the file. The headline read: Najdorf...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Round Three, SuperChess Meet Bayegan Pendik in Round Four2026-10-23At nine in the morning the pieces were being set. Thirty-two boards, sixty-fo...
ChessCarlsen at 35: The Five-Hour Game, Budapest's Scoresheet, and an Answer That Never Closed2026-10-23Five hours and forty minutes of one game. A small edge on move thirty-two tha...
ChessA Najdorf Headline, Elephant Gambit Lines: The Ledger of a 60-Minute Course2026-10-24Before I open any new course, I do the one thing I have done since 2026: I...
A Najdorf Headline, Elephant Gambit Lines: The Ledger of a 60-Minute CourseBefore I open any new course, I do the one thing I have done since 2026: I...
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in the Tiebreak to Win a Fourth US Chess Championship — the Verdict Came From the Clock Setting, Not the BoardThe Tiebreak Room: Where the Rules Change, Not the Chess Fabiano Caruana once...
Wesley So Wins Fourth US Chess Championship in Tiebreaks — But the Report Sold a Course, Not the MovesI opened the page whose headline read: Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in...
A Najdorf Poster, an Elephant Gambit Packet: The Scorecard of a Sixty-Minute CourseAhmedabad, late at night. I opened the file. The headline read: Najdorf...
Novy Bor and SuperChess 'remain perfect' — and the decade-old advert sitting under the headlineThe page opened with two names in the headline — Novy Bor and SuperChess — an...
A NATO Headline, A Najdorf Update: Two Different Games Inside One Chess ReportIn October 2026, at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, India's under-17s...
European Club Cup 2026: In Budva, an Average of 2715, 108 Teams, and an Overlooked 22The entry list was taped to a wall in the tournament hall in Budva. Morning o...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds — The Headline Said Three, the Score Sheet Said ElevenHook On Tuesday, 20 October 2026, the round-four pairings for the European Cl...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Round Three, SuperChess Meet Bayegan Pendik in Round FourAt nine in the morning the pieces were being set. Thirty-two boards, sixty-fo...
The Scandinavian in Sixty Minutes: A World Champion's Name, an Incomplete Promise, and a Wrong HeadlineTwo stories had been stapled onto one page. The headline at the top said a...
European Club Cup: After Round 3, the Standings Sheet Says What the Headline Doesn’tOn Tuesday, 20 October 2026, the European Club Cup has completed three rounds...
Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian, and a Myth Sold in Carlsen's NameA Tuesday evening at a club on Vasilyevsky Island, Saint Petersburg. I walked...
A Wrong President in the Headline, an Engine on Sale in the Body: The Chess Story That Wasn't NewsThe headline was short and clean: FIDE President Timur Turlov met Cyprus...
Carlsen at 35: The Five-Hour Game, Budapest's Scoresheet, and an Answer That Never ClosedFive hours and forty minutes of one game. A small edge on move thirty-two tha...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds, SuperChess Face Bayegan Pendik in Round FourOn Tuesday, 20 October 2026, before the round-four pairings were released,...
The Chess Media Report: 27 Miniatures, Four Annotators and a September LagSeptember in chess usually means a new engine, a faster database, or a rating...
Carlsen's October 21 Interview Is a Balance Sheet: Depreciating Endurance, a Format Shift, and Silence on $20 MillionFor the past decade I have strapped heart-rate belts onto fourteen players in...