Chess
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreaks to Claim Fourth US Chess ChampionshipIn the tiebreak room at the Saint Louis Chess Club, the tables are set a litt...
The Scandinavian's Real Pitch: Capping Losses, Not Beating WhiteThe file arrived in my inbox under the headline "Rachel Li stunningly wins US...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams, One Score, and a Headline That Refuses to Add Up20 October 2026, Tuesday. The European Club Cup standings sheet is on my desk...
2715 in Budva, a Barcelona Headline: An Evidence Audit of the European Club Cup BriefThe industry brief dated October 19, 2026 carried the headline "Barcelona to...
Sixty Minutes of Elephant Gambit: An Offbeat Weapon Sold Under the Najdorf's NameSixty Minutes Sixty minutes. Say that number about a chess course and my hand...
Budva's 2715: At the European Club Cup, the Biggest Question Runs From Board 4 to Board 6The headline of the 19 October 2026 report pointed at Barcelona. The body...
European Club Cup After Three Rounds: The Table Is Clean, the Headline Is NotI opened the calendar before the standings. 20 October 2026 is a Tuesday — I...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds, and a Headline the Body Does Not SupportEleven names stood in a single column on the standings sheet, and the figure ...
Auditing the Turlov File: One Wrong Title, Five Adjectives, Zero ChessI opened the source and counted two columns first. The headline carried a...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Four Annotators, and the 'Latest Theory' ClaimIt took four minutes to open the PDF. The count stopped first on the thing a...
A Misnamed FIDE President and a FRITZ 20 Ad Beneath It: Auditing a HeadlineThe headline reads like a big story: "FIDE President Timur Turlov meets Cypru...
The File Where the FIDE President's Name Was Wrong: FRITZ 20's Ad Copy and an Unaudited HeadlineA bulletin landed on my desk last week. One line: "FIDE President Timur Turlo...
A NATO Headline and a Najdorf Ledger: Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, and a Headline That Does Not Match Its BodyThe headline arrives first. The ledger arrives second. When the two do not...
The Scandinavian's Real Pitch: Capping Losses, Not Beating WhiteThe file arrived in my inbox under the headline "Rachel Li stunningly wins US...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams, One Score, and a Headline That Refuses to Add Up20 October 2026, Tuesday. The European Club Cup standings sheet is on my desk...
2715 in Budva, a Barcelona Headline: An Evidence Audit of the European Club Cup BriefThe industry brief dated October 19, 2026 carried the headline "Barcelona to...
Sixty Minutes of Elephant Gambit: An Offbeat Weapon Sold Under the Najdorf's NameSixty Minutes Sixty minutes. Say that number about a chess course and my hand...
Budva's 2715: At the European Club Cup, the Biggest Question Runs From Board 4 to Board 6The headline of the 19 October 2026 report pointed at Barcelona. The body...
European Club Cup After Three Rounds: The Table Is Clean, the Headline Is NotI opened the calendar before the standings. 20 October 2026 is a Tuesday — I...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds, and a Headline the Body Does Not SupportEleven names stood in a single column on the standings sheet, and the figure ...
Auditing the Turlov File: One Wrong Title, Five Adjectives, Zero ChessI opened the source and counted two columns first. The headline carried a...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Four Annotators, and the 'Latest Theory' ClaimIt took four minutes to open the PDF. The count stopped first on the thing a...
A Misnamed FIDE President and a FRITZ 20 Ad Beneath It: Auditing a HeadlineThe headline reads like a big story: "FIDE President Timur Turlov meets Cypru...
The File Where the FIDE President's Name Was Wrong: FRITZ 20's Ad Copy and an Unaudited HeadlineA bulletin landed on my desk last week. One line: "FIDE President Timur Turlo...
A NATO Headline and a Najdorf Ledger: Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, and a Headline That Does Not Match Its BodyThe headline arrives first. The ledger arrives second. When the two do not...
