Chess
ChessThe 9...a5 Whisper That Breaks the BayonetSaturday morning, a chess café on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in Da Nang. A...
ChessBayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo are 2026 European Club Cup champions: A news report without a single moveOpening There was an article with no chessboard. No moves. No score. No...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and Three Delivery LayersRain had been falling since noon, and on the second floor of a chess club in ...
ChessCarlsen and AI: When Opening Preparation Is Flattened, Humans Win With Something ElseThe chess clock in my drawer has not ticked since 2026, but I still keep it. ...
ChessCarlsen: 'AI shows humans are not that good' — Why the World No. 1 speaks bluntly about the limits of human chessAutumn in Budapest. A brand-new tournament gathers 24 of the strongest player...
ChessWhen a Chess Game Needs No Goals: Lessons from a Title-Content MismatchThere are mornings when I sit in front of the screen, open a sports bulletin,...
ChessA 60-Minute Patch for the Najdorf: Daniel King and the Craft of Opening-Theory MaintenanceMove five. A board in a weekend tournament, no spectators, no big screen on t...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: Bayegan Pendik's 2715 Elo and the 22-Team Women's Field in BudvaBudva's playing hall runs two tournaments side by side in the same week. The...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: The European Club Cup in the Headline, Prague 2026 in the AnnotationsIn Chengdu, I opened my laptop at eleven at night, the hour when, forty years...
ChessThe Elephant Gambit: A Second-Move Pawn Sacrifice and the Limits of SurpriseA club evening. The game is two moves old: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3, and the black d-paw...
ChessAtyrau Masters: Two Seeds Fall and the Trap of a Single HeadlineI read that headline three times, then put down my phone and reopened the...
ChessThe Scotch Opening, Kasparov 2026, and the Forgotten Defensive ProblemFourteen seconds — enough to redraw the opponent's entire defensive map. On t...
ChessThe Elephant Gambit and the Gap Behind a Bundesliga Headline: When Move Two Is Sold as a SecretA headline slipped into my feed one morning in Chiang Mai: "A dispute in the...
ChessThe Clock That Told the Wrong Time: The 2026/87 Precedent and the Name That Didn't BelongTHE CLOCK THAT TOLD THE WRONG TIME: THE 2026/87 PRECEDENT AND THE NAME THAT...
ChessPerfect at the US Chess Championship: Wesley So, Awonder Liang, and Black's Opening WorryBoard three at the US Chess Championship entered a round where the spectators...
ChessThe 11-Year-Old on Board One: Bodhana Sivanandan and the Strike Against the Sicilian FortressSamarkand, September 24, 2026. In the great hall where the World Team Chess...
ChessIs Chess the 'Least Expressive' Sport? The Debate Over Watchability in the Game of KingsInside the tournament hall, the only thing moving is the clock hand. Two...
ChessBent Larsen and ChessBase Magazine #225: An Elite Chess Training Call from Europe Seen from VietnamIn Vietnamese chess life, access to high-quality training materials has alway...
