Chess
Chess9...a5 Against the Bayonet: A Practical Answer, Not a Refutation2026-10-17In the editing room, I reopen the game on the big screen. The board has no...
ChessUS Chess Championship: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap2026-10-16The electronic clock on board three ticked second by second. There was no...
ChessFritzTrainer Calls Kostya Kavutskiy's Name: When Chess Sells the Teacher Instead of the Move2026-10-10On December 9, 2026, ChessBase published a review by Jochen Schwarz of Robert...
ChessThe 5.e5! Move in the Italian Game: A Club Weapon and a Double-Edged Sword2026-10-07Da Nang in August, rain drumming on the tin roof of a chess cafe on Bach Dang...
ChessSaint Louis 2026: $400,000, 12 Players and the Quiet Generational Handover in American Chess2026-10-07There is a frame that chess television almost always skips: the moment the...
Chess"Learning Strategy from Bent Larsen" – and What I Found Inside ChessBase Magazine #2252026-10-06This autumn, a cover arrived in my inbox in Da Nang. On it was the name Bent...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet: A Practical Answer, Not a RefutationIn the editing room, I reopen the game on the big screen. The board has no...
US Chess Championship: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the GapThe electronic clock on board three ticked second by second. There was no...
US Chess Championship: Woodward Takes Down Caruana and the Forgotten Elephant Gambit Behind the HeadlineIn a small cafe in Saigon, on a late-year night, I sat in front of a screen a...
Atyrau Masters: When the Top Two Seeds Fell in the Opening RoundsOn the opening day of the Atyrau Masters, the only line that reached my scree...
US Chess Championship: Woodward Topples Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and the Void Behind the Headline"Woodward beats Caruana. Lee widens the gap." That headline made me stop...
Karsten Müller and the Endgame Economy: Authority Built on Pages, Not on the Rating ListTwenty-five years. That is how long Grandmaster Karsten Müller has been tied ...
Yu Yangyi Defeats Ding Liren at Shenzhen Masters: A Result That Needs VerificationOn August 13, 2026, I sat in my small apartment in Chengdu, reopening the...
Perfect Scores at the US Chess Championship: Wesley So, Awonder Liang, and the Limits of a Statistical SampleIn a playing hall where the most trustworthy sound is a piece landing on the...
Liang Beats Niemann in Round 1 of the US Championship: When a Headline Leads to a Product CatalogueI opened the file at nine in the evening, the stopwatch beside my keyboard, t...
UzChess Cup: Brandon Jacobson, Jakhongir Vakhidov and the Data Gap Behind a 'Model Game'On the night of June 24, 2026, it was raining in Saigon. I opened the PGN fil...
FritzTrainer Calls Kostya Kavutskiy's Name: When Chess Sells the Teacher Instead of the MoveOn December 9, 2026, ChessBase published a review by Jochen Schwarz of Robert...
Kazakhstan, the FIDE Presidency and an Opening DVD: Decoding a Misleading Chess HeadlinePART 1: INTRODUCTION — WHEN THE HEADLINE RUNS AHEAD OF THE TRUTH In the...
ChessBase Magazine Issue 225: Inside a Chess Training Package Built Around PragueThere are games of chess that end before you finish pouring a cup of tea. In...
The 5.e5! Move in the Italian Game: A Club Weapon and a Double-Edged SwordDa Nang in August, rain drumming on the tin roof of a chess cafe on Bach Dang...
Chess and the Data Black Hole: When the Analysis Board Returns ZeroAt eleven at night in Da Nang, I opened the chess analysis report I had been...
The 5.e5 Move in the Italian Game: A Club Weapon and Its Verification GapOn the fifth move, White pushes the pawn to e5. On the board, a black pawn...
Saint Louis 2026: $400,000, 12 Players and the Quiet Generational Handover in American ChessThere is a frame that chess television almost always skips: the moment the...
"Learning Strategy from Bent Larsen" – and What I Found Inside ChessBase Magazine #225This autumn, a cover arrived in my inbox in Da Nang. On it was the name Bent...
Daniel King Updates the Najdorf: 60 Minutes, Five Lines, and the Shelf Life of Chess TheoryNha Trang, a weekend evening after a junior chess tournament. My student,...
Najdorf Sicilian: The Theory-Update Race and the Trap of a Mismatched Headline“People call it a shock. I call it data nobody has read yet.” This month, a...
A Mismatched Tape and a Lesson in Carelessness: When Daniel King Updates the NajdorfIn 2026, I loaded the wrong SHB Da Nang tape. For a month afterward, I had to...
The 9...a5 Move Against the Bayonet Attack: King's Indian Defense and a Data Gap Nobody Has FilledAfter White's ninth move, the King's Indian Defense enters a state I call the...
60-Minute Lesson and a Mislabeled Title: When Scotch Tactics Are Packaged Under FIDE Ratings HeaderPeople say girls know nothing about tactics. So I write for them to read. Las...
ChessMom Returns: When an Old Move Becomes a Shield for Mothers at the BoardLuzhniki night, the old bird understands that landing is also a way of flying...
US Chess Championship: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the GapThe electronic clock on board three ticked second by second. There was no...
US Chess Championship: Woodward Takes Down Caruana and the Forgotten Elephant Gambit Behind the HeadlineIn a small cafe in Saigon, on a late-year night, I sat in front of a screen a...
Atyrau Masters: When the Top Two Seeds Fell in the Opening RoundsOn the opening day of the Atyrau Masters, the only line that reached my scree...
US Chess Championship: Woodward Topples Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and the Void Behind the Headline"Woodward beats Caruana. Lee widens the gap." That headline made me stop...
Karsten Müller and the Endgame Economy: Authority Built on Pages, Not on the Rating ListTwenty-five years. That is how long Grandmaster Karsten Müller has been tied ...
Yu Yangyi Defeats Ding Liren at Shenzhen Masters: A Result That Needs VerificationOn August 13, 2026, I sat in my small apartment in Chengdu, reopening the...
Perfect Scores at the US Chess Championship: Wesley So, Awonder Liang, and the Limits of a Statistical SampleIn a playing hall where the most trustworthy sound is a piece landing on the...
Liang Beats Niemann in Round 1 of the US Championship: When a Headline Leads to a Product CatalogueI opened the file at nine in the evening, the stopwatch beside my keyboard, t...
UzChess Cup: Brandon Jacobson, Jakhongir Vakhidov and the Data Gap Behind a 'Model Game'On the night of June 24, 2026, it was raining in Saigon. I opened the PGN fil...
FritzTrainer Calls Kostya Kavutskiy's Name: When Chess Sells the Teacher Instead of the MoveOn December 9, 2026, ChessBase published a review by Jochen Schwarz of Robert...
Kazakhstan, the FIDE Presidency and an Opening DVD: Decoding a Misleading Chess HeadlinePART 1: INTRODUCTION — WHEN THE HEADLINE RUNS AHEAD OF THE TRUTH In the...
ChessBase Magazine Issue 225: Inside a Chess Training Package Built Around PragueThere are games of chess that end before you finish pouring a cup of tea. In...
The 5.e5! Move in the Italian Game: A Club Weapon and a Double-Edged SwordDa Nang in August, rain drumming on the tin roof of a chess cafe on Bach Dang...
Chess and the Data Black Hole: When the Analysis Board Returns ZeroAt eleven at night in Da Nang, I opened the chess analysis report I had been...
The 5.e5 Move in the Italian Game: A Club Weapon and Its Verification GapOn the fifth move, White pushes the pawn to e5. On the board, a black pawn...
Saint Louis 2026: $400,000, 12 Players and the Quiet Generational Handover in American ChessThere is a frame that chess television almost always skips: the moment the...
"Learning Strategy from Bent Larsen" – and What I Found Inside ChessBase Magazine #225This autumn, a cover arrived in my inbox in Da Nang. On it was the name Bent...
Daniel King Updates the Najdorf: 60 Minutes, Five Lines, and the Shelf Life of Chess TheoryNha Trang, a weekend evening after a junior chess tournament. My student,...
Najdorf Sicilian: The Theory-Update Race and the Trap of a Mismatched Headline“People call it a shock. I call it data nobody has read yet.” This month, a...
A Mismatched Tape and a Lesson in Carelessness: When Daniel King Updates the NajdorfIn 2026, I loaded the wrong SHB Da Nang tape. For a month afterward, I had to...
The 9...a5 Move Against the Bayonet Attack: King's Indian Defense and a Data Gap Nobody Has FilledAfter White's ninth move, the King's Indian Defense enters a state I call the...
60-Minute Lesson and a Mislabeled Title: When Scotch Tactics Are Packaged Under FIDE Ratings HeaderPeople say girls know nothing about tactics. So I write for them to read. Las...
ChessMom Returns: When an Old Move Becomes a Shield for Mothers at the BoardLuzhniki night, the old bird understands that landing is also a way of flying...
