Chess
The 60-Minute Scandinavian Course: A Decent Shortcut and Two Overstated Promises
Karsten Müller: Portrait of an Endgame Specialist and the Chess Training Economy
The e5 Push and Sveshnikov's Italian Weapon: A Club Player's Gamble
King's Indian Defense: The 9...a5 Move and the Strategic Question in the Engine Era
When the Stadium Falls Silent, the Commentator Writes with Her Ears
The Najdorf Never Stands Still: Daniel King's Sixty-Minute Maintenance JobAn October night in Saint Petersburg, the Griboyedov Canal sealed under a thi...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: The Promise of Solidity and Move FifteenOctober in Saint Petersburg. The snow has not fallen yet, but the Neva is...
Scandinavian Defense and the 60-Minute Promise: The Gap Opens After Move Twelve9:40 p.m., a chess café on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street. Board four, a...
The 60-Minute Scandinavian Course: A Decent Shortcut and Two Overstated PromisesOn a Saturday morning, in a small chess cafe on Nguyen Dinh Chieu Street,...
ChessBase Magazine #225: A European Club Cup Headline, a Magazine Sales Page in the BodyNowhere in the entire promotional text for ChessBase Magazine issue 225 does ...
27 Short Games and the Truth About a Chess World Changing GuardThere is a number in the ChessBase newsletter that made me stop in the middle...
Vietnamese Football: When the Power of Home Turf Isn't in the NumbersThe home pitch has no stands, yet every time the ball rolls, a whole sky of...
The Benko Gambit and the Bigger Hole Behind a HeadlineThe page in front of me is a chess review. The title names a course by...
US Championships: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, and a Headline That Doesn't Match the BodyThree in the morning, the mouse clicked once, very softly. I sat in front of...
US Chess Championship: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and the Spatial Puzzle Behind the BoardThe game ended faster than anyone expected. Fabiano Caruana — the man who onc...
Atyrau Masters and ChessBase #225: Two Seeds Fell, but What's Being Sold Is a HeadlineTwo top seeds at the Atyrau Masters fell in the opening rounds. I read that...
FIDE General Assembly Adopts Resolution on Shorter Time Controls: When Chess Must Choose Between Speed and DepthI still remember an afternoon in the winter of 2026, when I commentated on 45...
Kasparov and the 2026 Match: How a Forgotten Opening Became Chess's 'Nightmare'In the world of elite chess, there are openings that seem to have been buried...