Chess
Carlsen, AI, and the 20-Fold Gap Between Chess's Two Crowns
Magnus Carlsen, AI and the Twenty-Fold Crack Beneath the Chess Crown
Carlsen: 'AI shows humans are not that good'
Dortmund 2027 and a Chess Sales Page: When the Headline Leaves the Board
63 Checking Moves and an Unclosed Bound: A 58-Year-Old Chess Problem Through the Lens of Double Agent
Novy Bor, SuperChess and a Headline That Does Not Match Its BodyIn November I was sitting in a coffee shop at the far end of Nguyen Thien Thu...
Carlsen, AI, and the 20-Fold Gap Between Chess's Two CrownsThe best game Magnus Carlsen ever played was not one he won quickly. It was o...
Magnus Carlsen, AI and the Twenty-Fold Crack Beneath the Chess CrownA late-October afternoon, in a small chess club at the end of an alley off...
Carlsen: 'AI shows humans are not that good'Magnus Carlsen, world No. 1 for 15 consecutive years, has just made a stateme...
The Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: A Practical System and a Promise Beyond the DataThe eleventh blitz game of a Saturday evening at a small chess club on...
Total Chess and the Unified Rating: A Headline Without a BodyOn the morning of 29 August 2026, a report about a chess event in Budapest sa...
The 60-Minute Scandinavian Course: When the Headline and the Data Tell Two Different StoriesThe product page loaded at nine in the evening in Shenzhen, during a thick...
Total Chess Proposes a Unified Rating System: Budapest 2026 Tests Formats Before It Tests a ScaleOn 29 August 2026, a short bulletin appeared across international chess news...
The Hour of the Seconds: Why an Unpopular Chess Move Costs More Than a Correct OneI rewound the footage of a practice game in Hai Phong, November 2026. No...
The Move Nobody Expected: When the Forgotten Black Defense Returns to the BoardIn a small café on Nguyen Du Street, Saigon, an old man with silver hair sits...
The Board With No Spectators: When an Opening Book Is Sold With the Wrong AdvertisementThere is something strange about the chess world that I only recognised after...
Dortmund 2027 and a Chess Sales Page: When the Headline Leaves the BoardI opened the page expecting a Dortmund preview. The headline read ‘Dortmund...
US Chess Championship: Woodward Downs Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — And the Body Contains No GameI read the headline three times before believing it. Woodward downs Caruana....
6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: 140 Teams, a Record Number, and a Gap No One Has FilledI read that line at 2 a.m. Delhi time. The desk lamp was still on, the tea ha...
63 Checking Moves and an Unclosed Bound: A 58-Year-Old Chess Problem Through the Lens of Double AgentI rebuild the position on a wooden board before I trust any conclusion. On 13...
6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: A Record 140 Teams and the Gaps That RemainIn a small room inside a prison, a man sits before a computer screen, hands...
Daniel King refreshes the Najdorf: Five options for Black and a headline gone astrayOn a chess news page, the headline reads cleanly: 'Bundesliga: Viernheim and...
The 5.e5 Move in the Scotch Gambit: The Strange Comforts of a Romantic Chess LineThere is a moment I remember vividly from an open tournament for club players...
One Game, Two Opening Families: Jacobson vs Vakhidov at the UzChess Cup and the Data Gap in Promotional ContentOn June 25, 2026, an instructional chess episode was released online. Its tit...
Game of the Week #743: Gaal vs Smeets and ChessBase's Evergreen Content EquationOn a Wednesday evening, in a chess club tucked deep inside a narrow alley, fo...
ChessBase Game of the Week #743: Gaal vs Smeets and the Most Durable Content Model in ChessA Wednesday Evening, and the 743rd Time On a Wednesday evening, on a screen i...
Bodhana Sivanandan: Eleven Years Old, Board One, and the 3.Bc4 Sicilian SidestepIn Samarkand, inside the playing hall of the Chess Olympiad, there is a chair...
Misleading Headline About 'FIDE President' Grafted Onto an Opening DVD Ad: A Wake-Up Call for Chess Media CredibilityA post classified as a "Product Introduction" is drawing attention in the...
Decoding a Controversial Chess Report: The 9...a5 Move Against the Bayonet Attack and the FIDE President MisidentificationIn the international chess world, a short report has become a textbook exampl...
Chess "Not Expressive"? When a Former Badminton Player Applies the Wrong Yardstick to the BoardOn a November evening, as the decisive game of an international chess...
2026 U.S. Chess Championship: $400,000, Caruana's Defense, and the Mismatched Headline Nobody Bothered to FixThe question I asked did not sound like a woman, but the answer they dodged d...
Fighting 2.c4 after 1.d4 d5: IM Valeri Lilov's Six Videos, Black's Preparation Problem and a Mismatched HeadlineIn three consecutive games at a club-level open that I reviewed through...
The 5.e5! Push and the Italian Game Weapon: When Sveshnikov Gives a Pawn for the Whole CenterAt an open tournament in Moscow one winter, I sat in the back row — the spot ...