Chess
The NATO Chess Headline and the Real Najdorf Story: A Publishing Error That Fused Two Worlds
Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye's NATO Chess Title: A Result With No Entry in the Rating Ledger
European Club Cup: A 2715 Average Buys Half a Board Point, and the Title Lives on Boards 4 to 6
Magnus Carlsen's Admission: 'AI Shows Humans Are Not That Excellent' — And the Truth Behind the $20 Million
The Elephant Gambit Rides Again: When a Budva News Ticker Sold a Veteran Coach's DVD
Benko Gambit vs Fritz 20: One Product Page Exposed Chess's Review Economy
The Interview That Never Ran: The Scandinavian Defense, Carlsen's Borrowed Name, and a Sixty-Minute PromiseOn a Tuesday evening in a club room in Chennai, a nineteen-year-old with a...
A NATO Title and a Najdorf Video: One Headline, Two Separate WorldsThere were two things on the page and no bridge between them. At the top, a...
The NATO Chess Headline and the Real Najdorf Story: A Publishing Error That Fused Two WorldsThe press box verdict arrived before my first sentence did. The headline on...
The Nicosia Meeting: An Unresolved Question Over the FIDE Chair, and an Advertisement Printed on the Same PageThe Nicosia Meeting: An Unresolved Question Over the FIDE Chair, and an...
Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye's NATO Chess Title: A Result With No Entry in the Rating LedgerThe headline line is clean — Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye won the NATO Chess...
FRITZ 20 Inside a Benko Gambit Review: The Identity Crisis in Chess Product ReportingAt 1 a.m., the stadium was a phone screen and a prayer. On the screen sat a...
European Club Cup: A 2715 Average Buys Half a Board Point, and the Title Lives on Boards 4 to 6The round-three pairing sheet goes up and five names land in the same bracket...
Magnus Carlsen's Admission: 'AI Shows Humans Are Not That Excellent' — And the Truth Behind the $20 MillionThe Laptop That Was Quietly Running in Chennai November 2026. The press room ...
The Elephant Gambit Rides Again: When a Budva News Ticker Sold a Veteran Coach's DVDOne thing must be said first, because every other argument in this piece rest...
Timur Turlov, the FIDE Chair and an Unsourced Claim: Auditing the Nicosia ItemMonday morning brought a screenshot: a one-paragraph item with Nicosia, the...
One Product Page, Two Different Chesses: A Benko Gambit Repertoire and the Fritz 20 PromiseIt is twenty to three in the morning. In a one-bedroom flat in Andheri the...
Carlsen's Claim: AI Has Shown Humans Are Not That Great, But the Real Story Is DifferentHook: A quote that made headlines, but the ledger says something else Last...
Benko Gambit vs Fritz 20: One Product Page Exposed Chess's Review EconomyIt was late December, the desk in Hyderabad was cluttered, and fourteen brows...
Scandinavian in Sixty Minutes: Chess's Club Economy and a Mismatched HeadlineTwo stories sat on the same page and neither recognised the other. The headli...
European Club Cup: A 2715 Average and a Half-Board-Point MarginSomewhere on the European Club Cup scoreboard after round two sits a number...
European Club Cup: Comfortable Wins for the Favourites, but the Magazine's Real Score Is Something ElseThe issue that claims to cover the European Club Cup (ECCC) results promises...
Total Chess: The Headline Promised a Unified Rating; Budapest Delivered Four Players and Eleven DaysOn the afternoon of 29 August 2026 I was in a Moscow studio, stitching togeth...
The 5.e5 Branch of the Italian Game: A Hidden Weapon for Club Players or a Trap Waiting to Spring?The main lines of the Italian Game — 4.d3 and 4.O-O — have been excavated so...
European Club Cup: A Headline Full of Comfortable Wins, a Body With No ScorelineChessBase Magazine #225's product page carries the headline “European Club Cu...
