Chess
Najdorf Repair: Daniel King's 60-Minute Product or 10-Year-Old Theory?
European Club Cup: Eleven Teams on One Line, and the Board Points Nobody Read
The Scandinavian Defense and the Ledger of a Broken Headline: A 60-Minute Promise, the Carlsen Halo, and Chess Media's Unfinished Accounting
Eleven Years Old, 5.5/7 and a 2465 Performance: The IM Claim Still Waiting on Paperwork
An IM Claim at Eleven: The 2,465 Performance Rating, and the Question the Scoreboard Didn't Ask
Prague 2026 and 27 Miniatures: The Chess Workshop Whose Light Never Reaches the Stage
Eleven Years Old, 5.5/7 and a 2465 Performance: The IM Claim Still Waiting on PaperworkThe evening of 23 October. Board one. An eleven-year-old girl sits behind the...
An IM Claim at Eleven: The 2,465 Performance Rating, and the Question the Scoreboard Didn't AskThe evening of 23 October. Board one. Black pieces. An eleven-year-old chose ...
Prague 2026 and 27 Miniatures: The Chess Workshop Whose Light Never Reaches the StageIn Moscow the radiator makes a strange sound after two in the morning, like a...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: The Ledger Behind Daniel King's Repertoire UpdateIt was eleven in the morning in a New York apartment and only a laptop was op...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026’s 27 Miniatures Are the Syllabus Club Players Never OpenOne line in the contents of ChessBase Magazine issue 225 buries everything...
The Real Maintenance of the Najdorf Repertoire: Daniel King's 60-Minute FritzTrainer Update - For Whom?A 2026-rated club player once asked me why his Najdorf still fails against...
Najdorf Repair: Daniel King's 60-Minute Product or 10-Year-Old Theory?If you are building a Black repertoire against the Sicilian Najdorf, the firs...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: An Update DVD and the Speed at Which Theory AgesPut the disc in and start the timer. Sixty minutes later you will own five...
Eleven Years, Seven Months, Sixteen Days: An IM Title Report and the Empty Calendar Inside ItThe last round of 23 October. Board one. Black pieces. A gambit line whose na...
77 Teams, Five Continents and a Missing Scoresheet: Auditing FIDE's Prison Chess ChampionshipThe same tournament currently carries two names. One document calls it the...
Prisoners' First Continental Chess: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Question Left UnansweredThe FIDE announcement on May 13, 2026 carried a big number: 77 teams from fiv...
European Club Cup: Eleven Teams on One Line, and the Board Points Nobody ReadOpen the open-section standings after round three. Eleven teams are stacked o...
The Scandinavian Defense and the Ledger of a Broken Headline: A 60-Minute Promise, the Carlsen Halo, and Chess Media's Unfinished AccountingI watched from the tribune, then went back to measure what the eyes missed....