Chess
Sipke Ernst's Benko Gambit: A Review With No Moves and the Trust Deficit in Chess PublishingThe clock on the screen ticked over to 2:14 in the morning. Shanghai was quie...
The Opening 'Review' Trap: When a Benko Gambit Headline Masks an Engine Sales PageThere is an article about Sipke Ernst and his book The Modern Benko Gambit — ...
US Championships: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the GapSummer in Saint Louis. In the playing hall of the US Chess Championship, a...
The Elephant Gambit and a Swapped Headline: Re-reading the US Chess Championships Through DataOne night in Bangalore, as rain drummed on the tin roof and I was still awake...
The 6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: 140 Teams and the Moves No Crowd Will Ever SeeThere is a moment that sports television never broadcasts: the silence right...
63 Checking Moves: When AI Proves the Limit Humans Left Open for 58 YearsClose to eleven at night, I reopened that position on my screen and began...
63 Checking Moves: The Ceiling of a 58-Year-Old Chess Problem and What the Headline Left OutIn my editing room in Hai Phong, I keep a wall covered with slips of paper...
6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: a Record 140 Teams and the Gaps That Still Need VerifyingA chess event with no grandstand, no physical board between two players, and ...
Chess Bundesliga 2026/87: The Late-Arrival Dispute That Turned the Relegation Race Upside DownThe arbiter's clock struck the start time. The pieces remained untouched in...
ChessBase, Kostya Kavutskiy, and the Gap the Chess Content Market Lives OnThere is a moment that anyone who has ever sat beside a club player recognize...
Bodhana Sivanandan, the 3.Bc4 Move, and the Lesson of an Eleven-Year-Old on Board OneOn board one for England's women's team at the Samarkand 2026 Chess Olympiad,...
A Misplaced Name at the Chessboard: FIDE, the 9...a5 Move, and the Silence of TruthOn a chess forum, among the thousands of posts that drift by each day, a post...
The Najdorf and a 60-Minute Update: When Chess Theory Becomes a Subscription ProductOn a laptop screen in Binh Duong, the runtime bar sits at 60:00. Five chapter...
9...a5 against the Bayonet Attack: A Strategic Recommendation Without Verification DataA round-six game at a national team championship: Black has just pushed the...
King's Indian Defense: The 9...a5 Move and a Strategic Exit From the Bayonet MazeKing's Indian Defense: The 9...a5 Move and a Strategic Exit From the Bayonet...
The Scandinavian Defense and the 60-Minute Promise: The Spatial Map of a Time-Saving MoveOn the third move, the black queen comes to rest on a5. There is no applause,...
