Chess
ChessThe 5.e5 Modern Italian: a club weapon and a mismatched headlineI opened the package at 11 p.m., after the day's transfer-data sheets had...
ChessTotal Chess and the Unified Rating Proposal: Budapest Tests the Format, Not the ScaleFour names, three formats, twelve days, and one term nobody has defined: Fast...
ChessThe Scandinavian Defence: Sixty Minutes to Learn the Opening, Three Months to Understand the MiddlegameThe stopwatch on my desk stopped at 58 minutes and 41 seconds. That is the...
Chess9...a5 and the Two-Move Gap Inside a King's Indian Opening DVDThe Ninth Move and a Gap Two Moves Wide There is a gap in the promotional tex...
ChessThe a-pawn takes one step: dissecting the pitch of a King's Indian DVDMove nine. A black pawn on the queenside steps up one square, a7 to a5. Nothi...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Four Annotators and a Headline Pointing ElsewhereEleven at night in Shanghai, I reopened ChessBase's news page with a blank...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: The Headline Promises European Club Cup Results, the Pages Deliver a Product CatalogueOn ChessBase's homepage, the headline read clearly: "European Club Cup:...
ChessThe Reckless Move and the Lesson from Chess's Hidden CornerOn a late-autumn evening in 2026, I sat in the third row of a small team...
Chess9...a5 in the Mar del Plata: An Answer to the Bayonet Attack, and What the Seller Leaves OutI rewatched the game on mute. No commentators, no crowd noise, only pieces...
Chess6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: 140 Teams and a Nameless ScoreboardFor 32 years in the chess commentary booth at VTC, I have flipped through...
ChessThe Elephant Gambit in the Bundesliga: A Surprise Move With No Data Behind ItOn the second move of the game, the black pawn left d7 for d5. No piece was...
ChessThe Scandinavian Defense: When the World Champion Uses a Simple System to Pressure WhiteI replayed the SEA Games 29 footage to find what people overlooked. This time...
ChessWhite Dodges Theory After 1.d4 d5: A Map of Seven Opening Systems and the Plan for BlackThree in the morning in Hanoi, the room was so quiet I could hear the ticking...
ChessThe 11-Year-Old, the 3.Bc4 Move, and the Unanswered QuestionOn a late-September afternoon in Samarkand, on board one of the women's team...
ChessThe 9...a5 Move, a Misread Name, and Chess's Lesson in VerificationOn the board, 9...a5 is just a pawn stepping one square — so small a distract...
ChessTotal Chess and the Unified Rating Proposal: Budapest Tests the Format, Not the ScaleFour names, three formats, twelve days, and one term nobody has defined: Fast...
ChessThe Scandinavian Defence: Sixty Minutes to Learn the Opening, Three Months to Understand the MiddlegameThe stopwatch on my desk stopped at 58 minutes and 41 seconds. That is the...
Chess9...a5 and the Two-Move Gap Inside a King's Indian Opening DVDThe Ninth Move and a Gap Two Moves Wide There is a gap in the promotional tex...
ChessThe a-pawn takes one step: dissecting the pitch of a King's Indian DVDMove nine. A black pawn on the queenside steps up one square, a7 to a5. Nothi...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Four Annotators and a Headline Pointing ElsewhereEleven at night in Shanghai, I reopened ChessBase's news page with a blank...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: The Headline Promises European Club Cup Results, the Pages Deliver a Product CatalogueOn ChessBase's homepage, the headline read clearly: "European Club Cup:...
ChessThe Reckless Move and the Lesson from Chess's Hidden CornerOn a late-autumn evening in 2026, I sat in the third row of a small team...
Chess9...a5 in the Mar del Plata: An Answer to the Bayonet Attack, and What the Seller Leaves OutI rewatched the game on mute. No commentators, no crowd noise, only pieces...
Chess6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: 140 Teams and a Nameless ScoreboardFor 32 years in the chess commentary booth at VTC, I have flipped through...
ChessThe Elephant Gambit in the Bundesliga: A Surprise Move With No Data Behind ItOn the second move of the game, the black pawn left d7 for d5. No piece was...
ChessThe Scandinavian Defense: When the World Champion Uses a Simple System to Pressure WhiteI replayed the SEA Games 29 footage to find what people overlooked. This time...
ChessWhite Dodges Theory After 1.d4 d5: A Map of Seven Opening Systems and the Plan for BlackThree in the morning in Hanoi, the room was so quiet I could hear the ticking...
ChessThe 11-Year-Old, the 3.Bc4 Move, and the Unanswered QuestionOn a late-September afternoon in Samarkand, on board one of the women's team...
ChessThe 9...a5 Move, a Misread Name, and Chess's Lesson in VerificationOn the board, 9...a5 is just a pawn stepping one square — so small a distract...
