Chess
Carlsen’s AI Quote Is Noise: Before Budapest, the Real Story Is $1 Million vs $20 Million
European Club Cup 2026: The Threat to Bayegan Is Not Defeat, It Is a 3–3 Draw
Total Chess Budapest Pilot: A Rating-System Claim That the Format Cannot Yet Support
The 'Antidote' to the Bayonet: 9...a5 in the Mar del Plata and Chess's Unfinished Paper Trail
The 9...a5 Ledger: Auditing a King's Indian Mar del Plata Sideline
European Club Cup 2026: The Threat to Bayegan Is Not Defeat, It Is a 3–3 DrawThe round-three pairing sheet goes up, and the first number I look at is not...
Total Chess Budapest Pilot: A Rating-System Claim That the Format Cannot Yet SupportOn 10 November 2026, when the first 'Fast Classic' clock starts in a Budapest...
The 'Antidote' to the Bayonet: 9...a5 in the Mar del Plata and Chess's Unfinished Paper TrailA promotional sheet for an opening product has been sitting on my desk. The...
The 9...a5 Ledger: Auditing a King's Indian Mar del Plata SidelineThe product copy recommending 9...a5 in the King's Indian Mar del Plata...
The Headline Said Türkiye; the Body Sold the Najdorf: Anatomy of a Document That Split in TwoThere are seventeen points in this file. The first says that Vahap Sanal and...
The Review That Had No Chess In It: Benko Gambit, FRITZ 20, and Two Products on One Page11:40 p.m. The rain had stopped over Chennai and I opened the tab that had be...
Total Chess Budapest Pilot: Four Players, Eleven Days, and a 'Unified Rating System' the Story Never MentionsBudapest, 10 to 21 November 2026 — eleven days, four players, three formats,...
Three Pearls in the Title, 5.e5 in the Body: Auditing an Italian Game SidelineAt 2:14 a.m. in a Chicago apartment, two windows were open: the Stage-1 packa...
Carlsen’s AI Quote Is Noise: Before Budapest, the Real Story Is $1 Million vs $20 MillionOn October 21, 2026, the Spanish newspaper AS runs a long Magnus Carlsen...
European Club Cup: The Ledger Behind the Favourites' 'Comfortable' WinsEuropean Club Cup (ECCC) reporting has an old problem: the headline announces...
Sixty Minutes, Zero Data: The Elephant Gambit Product Selling Under a Budva HeadlineLate last week, in Bangalore, I opened a chess website page. The headline rea...
Total Chess Budapest Pilot: A Rating-System Claim That the Format Cannot Yet SupportOn 10 November 2026, when the first 'Fast Classic' clock starts in a Budapest...
The 'Antidote' to the Bayonet: 9...a5 in the Mar del Plata and Chess's Unfinished Paper TrailA promotional sheet for an opening product has been sitting on my desk. The...
The 9...a5 Ledger: Auditing a King's Indian Mar del Plata SidelineThe product copy recommending 9...a5 in the King's Indian Mar del Plata...
The Headline Said Türkiye; the Body Sold the Najdorf: Anatomy of a Document That Split in TwoThere are seventeen points in this file. The first says that Vahap Sanal and...
The Review That Had No Chess In It: Benko Gambit, FRITZ 20, and Two Products on One Page11:40 p.m. The rain had stopped over Chennai and I opened the tab that had be...
Total Chess Budapest Pilot: Four Players, Eleven Days, and a 'Unified Rating System' the Story Never MentionsBudapest, 10 to 21 November 2026 — eleven days, four players, three formats,...
Three Pearls in the Title, 5.e5 in the Body: Auditing an Italian Game SidelineAt 2:14 a.m. in a Chicago apartment, two windows were open: the Stage-1 packa...
Carlsen’s AI Quote Is Noise: Before Budapest, the Real Story Is $1 Million vs $20 MillionOn October 21, 2026, the Spanish newspaper AS runs a long Magnus Carlsen...
European Club Cup: The Ledger Behind the Favourites' 'Comfortable' WinsEuropean Club Cup (ECCC) reporting has an old problem: the headline announces...
Sixty Minutes, Zero Data: The Elephant Gambit Product Selling Under a Budva HeadlineLate last week, in Bangalore, I opened a chess website page. The headline rea...