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ChessFrom Tiebreak Margins to AI-Powered Training: Sasikiran's Bavarian Championship Triumph and the Potential of FRITZ 202026-11-10Indian Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran won the 29th Open International Bavaria...
ChessThe 9...a5 Antidote and a Mislabeled Presidency: Two Halves of One Page2026-10-30The notebook page carries a date—June 2026. The top half of the scrolled page...
ChessEmpty File, Full Wound: Diagnosing the Information Deficit in Bangladesh Chess2026-10-28Ten fields sat open on my screen, and every one of them returned the same...
ChessTimur Turlov Is Not the FIDE President: How One Nicosia Headline Exposed an Old Wound in Chess Journalism2026-10-22“FIDE President Timur Turlov met Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides in...
ChessBodhana in the Headline, 5.e5 on the Board: The Two Faces of One Column2026-10-20I laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. The headline read...
Chess45.Rd1: A Teenager's Gamble in Samarkand, India's 16 Match Points, and the Ledger We Never Write2026-09-28The 2026 Chess Olympiad women's penultimate round turned on a single move:...
From Tiebreak Margins to AI-Powered Training: Sasikiran's Bavarian Championship Triumph and the Potential of FRITZ 20Indian Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran won the 29th Open International Bavaria...
WFCC Grand Prix Final in Fujairah: A Product Pitch Hidden Behind a HeadlineIntroduction: One Headline, Two Different Subjects A recent report published ...
Chess Has No Transfer Window, Only Ledgers: The Purana Paltan Cupboard and a Seventeen-Year WaitThe steel cupboard in the Purana Paltan chess hall still holds the 2026 norm...
The 9...a5 Antidote and a Mislabeled Presidency: Two Halves of One PageThe notebook page carries a date—June 2026. The top half of the scrolled page...
Empty File, Full Wound: Diagnosing the Information Deficit in Bangladesh ChessTen fields sat open on my screen, and every one of them returned the same...
Magnus Carlsen's Confession: Why 'Humans Are Not That Good at Chess Anymore' — The Story Inside a Translation ChainOn 21 October, in an interview with Spain's AS, Magnus Carlsen said artificia...
Timur Turlov Is Not the FIDE President: How One Nicosia Headline Exposed an Old Wound in Chess Journalism“FIDE President Timur Turlov met Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides in...
Money's Fire on the Budva Boards: Club Chess's New Empire and the Ledger of Old WoundsWhen morning light falls on the glass windows of the Adriatic hotels in Budva...
Bodhana in the Headline, 5.e5 on the Board: The Two Faces of One ColumnI laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. The headline read...
9...a5: A Preparation Weapon Against the Bayonet Fashion“9.b4” — it took me 640 tagged games before I could write those two character...
Merijn van Delft's Wednesdays: A Decade of Broadcast Load and the Unfinished 2026 GM NormLast Wednesday, in a small Amsterdam studio, minutes before the camera went...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack in the King's Indian Mar del Plata: The Ledger and Uncertainty of an AntidoteThe game had reached move nine. The King's Indian Defence, Mar del Plata...
A Crown in Tsaghkadzor, an Advert for 9...a5: The Two Bodies of a Chess StoryThe headline stopped me. Champions were crowned from Tsaghkadzor to the Grand...
45.Rd1: A Teenager's Gamble in Samarkand, India's 16 Match Points, and the Ledger We Never WriteThe 2026 Chess Olympiad women's penultimate round turned on a single move:...
The 5.e5 Ledger: A Club Player's Weapon, An Engine's Open QuestionInstallment number 740. The number itself is a piece of information: this is...
Move 54 in Samarkand: Gukesh's Escape and the Ledger of India's Single-Point DependenceIn the Samarkand hall the clock had passed five hours, and by engine evaluati...
Round 9 in Samarkand: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape and the Arithmetic of India's One-Point DependenceOn board four of Round 9 in Samarkand, the clock had gone past five hours and...
Samarkand in Prague's Shadow: One Headline, Another Article, and the Gap in Chess's Training EconomyLast month a file landed in my inbox titled Samarkand R8 (women): China lead...
