Chess
Twenty-Seven Miniatures and One Incomplete Archive: What ChessBase Magazine #225 Carries Out of Prague 2026In the tournament hall of Prague's Hotel Don Giovanni, when a game ends in...
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...
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...
