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ChessThe Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: The Real Standing of a 'Safe' Opening and the Limits of the Play-It-Today Promise2026-10-20On a Tuesday evening at a small chess club on Ranade Road in Dadar, Mumbai, a...
ChessWhen the Board Empties: Lessons From an Article Off Its Axis2026-10-18In a small coffee shop in Saigon, I reopened an article I had saved months...
ChessThe Reckless Move on Move Two: Why the Elephant Gambit Still Survives in the Engine Era2026-10-18There is a pawn that never appears in the textbook. It sits on move two. Afte...
Chess9...a5 and the Bayonet Attack: An Answer for Players Who Win by Understanding, Not Memory2026-10-16Three numbers to open: E97, E98, E99. Those are the classification codes in t...
ChessThe Gap After 1.d4 d5: Black's Economic Problem Against the London, Colle and Trompowsky2026-10-11The opening rounds of the US Chess Championship closed with two names sharing...
ChessKostya Kavutskiy Joins FritzTrainer: The Chess Instructional Market Changes Hands2026-10-11On the board, not a single move is recorded. No game, no metric, no opening...
European Club Cup in Budva: Bayegan Pendik at 2715 Elo, and the real title match begins in round fiveBefore round three in Budva, a pairing sheet went up on the corridor wall. On...
The Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: The Real Standing of a 'Safe' Opening and the Limits of the Play-It-Today PromiseOn a Tuesday evening at a small chess club on Ranade Road in Dadar, Mumbai, a...
5.e5 in the Modern Italian: One Hour of Study, Three Replies, and No DataAfter White's fifth move only one thing remains to be solved: where does the...
When the Board Empties: Lessons From an Article Off Its AxisIn a small coffee shop in Saigon, I reopened an article I had saved months...
The Reckless Move on Move Two: Why the Elephant Gambit Still Survives in the Engine EraThere is a pawn that never appears in the textbook. It sits on move two. Afte...
Benko Gambit Headline, FRITZ 20 Body: An Editing Failure in Chess MediaA chess product page opens with the line The Modern Benko Gambit — A Full...
The King's Indian Defense against the Bayonet Attack: the 9...a5 questionIn my notebook, that page held just two lines of notation: 9.b4, then a5. It...
9...a5 and the Bayonet Attack: An Answer for Players Who Win by Understanding, Not MemoryThree numbers to open: E97, E98, E99. Those are the classification codes in t...
US Championships: Woodward Beats Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and the Opening Course Hidden Behind the HeadlineThe headline reads like a straight news bulletin: "US Championships: Woodward...
The Elephant Gambit: When the Second Move Shakes the German BoardThe Elephant Gambit: When the Second Move Shakes the German Board A Bundeslig...
Najdorf, Daniel King and the pace of opening-theory updates in chessSixty minutes. One English-language video file. Five opening systems for Blac...
The Gap After 1.d4 d5: Black's Economic Problem Against the London, Colle and TrompowskyThe opening rounds of the US Chess Championship closed with two names sharing...
Kostya Kavutskiy Joins FritzTrainer: The Chess Instructional Market Changes HandsOn the board, not a single move is recorded. No game, no metric, no opening...
US Championships: Awonder Liang Beats Hans Niemann in Round 1, and the Gap the Headline Leaves BehindThe United States national championship opened with a tidy line: Awonder Lian...
ChessBase signs Kostya Kavutskiy: Two new courses and the quiet battle in the chess content marketOn December 9, 2026, ChessBase published the second installment of Jochen...
ChessBase and the FritzTrainer Author Wars: When Platforms Buy Attention Instead of MovesIn my personal data vault in Shenzhen there is a column I rarely show anyone:...
Turlov Is Not the FIDE President, and 9...a5 Is Not an Antidote: Decoding Two Errors Sharing One HeadlineOn a chess forum I still open every morning, a headline scrolled past: “FIDE...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Spatial Map of a Training IndustryPrague Festival 2026 had just ended, and the first thing to emerge from that...
Sveshnikov's e5 Pawn: The Italian Game Center Gambit and Its Trap for Club PlayersA winter night in Saint Petersburg, late snow whitening the old rooftops, and...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Bent Larsen on the Cover, 27 Miniatures InsideIn the autumn of 2026, a long-running chess magazine released its 225th issue...
The Bayonet 9.b4 and the Move 9...a5: The King's Indian Defense Searching for an Escape from the Engine EraIn the last three games I sat taking notes at the national championship...
The Scandinavian Defense: A Time-Saving Move and the Trap of ConvenienceIn a chess hall on the outskirts of Moscow, in the winter of 2026, I sat behi...
Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş: A Fourteen-Year-Old at the Board and a Record Awaiting VerificationInside the playing hall in Samarkand, as the tenth game came to a close, a...
Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş: 8 Points from 10 Games and a 2,730 Threshold Still UnverifiedThe bulletin reached the newsroom in Saint Petersburg on an autumn morning,...
