Chess
Rachel Li, the Queen on a5, and a Headline Without a Crosstable
Rachel Li and the Swapped Page: When a Championship Headline Leads to a 60-Minute Opening Video
Rachel Li and the 2026 US Women's Chess Championship: What the Headline Left Out
Total Chess Unveils a Unified Rating System, but the Announcement Still Has No Scale
US Chess Championships: Perfect Scores for So and Liang, and a Defensive Repertoire Packaged Wrong
The King's Indian Defense and the move 9...a5: When a player chooses the empty road in the engine era
The Headline Says Clutch Chess. The Body Sells a Six-Video Course.One morning I opened the chess news page I check out of habit. The headline...
Hanoi 2026: A 60-Minute Opening Session and the Limits of a Najdorf PatchHanoi, October 12, 2026. In a chess training room on Hang Bong Street, a...
Rachel Li, the Queen on a5, and a Headline Without a CrosstableRachel Li, the Queen on a5, and a Headline Without a Crosstable Move three. T...
Rachel Li and the Swapped Page: When a Championship Headline Leads to a 60-Minute Opening VideoThe page opened with a bold headline: Rachel Li stunningly wins US Women's...
Rachel Li and the 2026 US Women's Chess Championship: What the Headline Left OutA wire dispatch under four lines long from the United States landed on my des...
When the Chess Champion No Longer Sits on the Throne: A Lesson on Trust and TruthOn an August morning, I sat alone with a cup of coffee in Binh Duong, reopeni...
The 5 e5! Modern Italian: a club weapon and a name misplaced on the coverIn a chess game, White's fifth move costs a fraction of a second: the e4 pawn...
Total Chess Unveils a Unified Rating System, but the Announcement Still Has No ScaleOn 29 August 2026, a short dispatch about the Total Chess World Championship...
Ho Linh and the Art of the Najdorf Defense: When Chess Theory Never Stops EvolvingIn the world of chess, there is a paradox that any player who has ever wielde...
US Chess Championships: Perfect Scores for So and Liang, and a Defensive Repertoire Packaged WrongOn the live results board of the US Chess Championships, one line made me rea...
Wesley So, Awonder Liang and a Perfect Score That Hasn't Earned Its Name YetIn a playing hall without applause, where the only sound is the ticking of a...
ChessBase's Game of the Week #743: 14 Years, 743 Episodes, and the Question of the StorytellerThere is a habit I have kept for many years, even during the busiest stretche...
Six Videos, Seven Systems, One Borrowed Headline: The Opening Map of Club ChessOpening A headline that reads like news: “Vlastimil Hort Tournament 2026:...
The Italian Game Center Gambit: Sveshnikov's 5.e5! Weapon and the Trap That Betrays Its SetterI remember a winter evening in 2026 at a small chess club on Rubinstein Stree...
From Larsen to Giri: When Expectation Outpaces RealityIn 2026, I sat in a small recording room in Chengdu, staring at a computer...
Bent Larsen on the ChessBase #225 Cover: When Chess Sells Memory Through a NameOn the cover of ChessBase Magazine issue 225 there is a name: Bent Larsen. Th...
Daniel King and the Najdorf Sicilian Update: Sixty Minutes for a Seventy-Year MazeIn the world of chess, there are openings one does not learn in order to win,...
Hanoi 2026: A 60-Minute Opening Session and the Limits of a Najdorf PatchHanoi, October 12, 2026. In a chess training room on Hang Bong Street, a...
Rachel Li, the Queen on a5, and a Headline Without a CrosstableRachel Li, the Queen on a5, and a Headline Without a Crosstable Move three. T...
Rachel Li and the Swapped Page: When a Championship Headline Leads to a 60-Minute Opening VideoThe page opened with a bold headline: Rachel Li stunningly wins US Women's...
Rachel Li and the 2026 US Women's Chess Championship: What the Headline Left OutA wire dispatch under four lines long from the United States landed on my des...
When the Chess Champion No Longer Sits on the Throne: A Lesson on Trust and TruthOn an August morning, I sat alone with a cup of coffee in Binh Duong, reopeni...
The 5 e5! Modern Italian: a club weapon and a name misplaced on the coverIn a chess game, White's fifth move costs a fraction of a second: the e4 pawn...
Total Chess Unveils a Unified Rating System, but the Announcement Still Has No ScaleOn 29 August 2026, a short dispatch about the Total Chess World Championship...
Ho Linh and the Art of the Najdorf Defense: When Chess Theory Never Stops EvolvingIn the world of chess, there is a paradox that any player who has ever wielde...
US Chess Championships: Perfect Scores for So and Liang, and a Defensive Repertoire Packaged WrongOn the live results board of the US Chess Championships, one line made me rea...
Wesley So, Awonder Liang and a Perfect Score That Hasn't Earned Its Name YetIn a playing hall without applause, where the only sound is the ticking of a...
ChessBase's Game of the Week #743: 14 Years, 743 Episodes, and the Question of the StorytellerThere is a habit I have kept for many years, even during the busiest stretche...
Six Videos, Seven Systems, One Borrowed Headline: The Opening Map of Club ChessOpening A headline that reads like news: “Vlastimil Hort Tournament 2026:...
The Italian Game Center Gambit: Sveshnikov's 5.e5! Weapon and the Trap That Betrays Its SetterI remember a winter evening in 2026 at a small chess club on Rubinstein Stree...
From Larsen to Giri: When Expectation Outpaces RealityIn 2026, I sat in a small recording room in Chengdu, staring at a computer...
Bent Larsen on the ChessBase #225 Cover: When Chess Sells Memory Through a NameOn the cover of ChessBase Magazine issue 225 there is a name: Bent Larsen. Th...
Daniel King and the Najdorf Sicilian Update: Sixty Minutes for a Seventy-Year MazeIn the world of chess, there are openings one does not learn in order to win,...