Chess
The Bayonet Attack 9.b4 and the Move 9...a5: The Promise of a Rare Choice
August in Chess: The Petroff Returns and the Echo from Empty Stands
Samarkand 2026: Organisers Fail to Forward Hotel Booking as Indian Defending Champions Wait Outside
The Samarkand Torch and the Child Holding the Flame: Three Unverified Names
ChessSamarkand Opens the Board: India's Double-Gold Defence and a Decision That Cannot Be UndoneOn Wednesday morning local time in Uzbekistan, two Indian teams walked into t...
ChessThe Bayonet Attack 9.b4 and the Move 9...a5: The Promise of a Rare ChoiceThere was a night I sat in a small editing room in Nha Trang, replaying foota...
Chess"Stronger Than When They Won the Olympiad" – Which Board Can Verify a ComplimentHook I sat rewatching Divya Deshmukh's game from Budapest with headphones...
Chess9...a5 in the King's Indian: A Bayonet Antidote or Just a Fallback Sideline?When a move is advertised with the word antidote, I set up the board before I...
ChessEight Layers of Modern Chess Analysis and the Data Gap Behind Vietnam's BoardEIGHT LAYERS OF MODERN CHESS ANALYSIS AND THE DATA GAP BEHIND VIETNAM'S BOARD...
ChessSamarkand 2026: The Unassigned Room Key and the Real Move Sitting on Board OneThe Indian chess team landed in Samarkand. Roughly five hours later, team...
ChessAugust in Chess: The Petroff Returns and the Echo from Empty StandsIn my chess notebook there is a page with a single line: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6....
ChessPetroff, Two Positional Courses, and the August Rhythm of the Chess Training MarketOpening A late August evening in Saint Petersburg. Rain falls on the birch...
ChessOlympiad 2026: India's Hotel Room Scramble in Samarkand and the Organizing Committee's EndgameFour in the morning in Samarkand. An Indian chess player sits on a suitcase i...
ChessWhen the Board Has No Data: How Chess Commentary Keeps Fooling ItselfIn 2026, at the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis, Hans Niemann — then nineteen...
ChessSamarkand 2026: Organisers Fail to Forward Hotel Booking as Indian Defending Champions Wait OutsideAbout five hours. That is the gap between the moment the Indian chess team...
ChessChess Olympiad 2026: The Torch Reaches Samarkand and Three Claims That Require VerificationThe torch of the 2026 Chess Olympiad has just been passed to Samarkand, and t...
ChessThe Empty Board and the Data Trap: When Elo Is Not Enough to Tell the StoryLate one August night, I opened the data file for an international chess even...
ChessChessBase Releases Its August 2026 Product Line: The Petroff, Two Positional-Play Courses, and an Unanswered Question for Vietnamese ChessChessBase Releases Its August 2026 Product Line: The Petroff, Two...
ChessChess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India Defends Two Crowns, and the Silence of a Page Without a BroadcastThree in the morning in Saint Petersburg. Wind from the Neva slipped through...
ChessBlank Squares on the Board: When a Chess Analysis Pipeline Returns NothingThe home pitch had no stands, yet every time the ball rolled, a whole sky of...
ChessThe Samarkand Torch and the Child Holding the Flame: Three Unverified NamesThere is a four-second moment in Samarkand that I replayed three times. They...
ChessThe Bayonet Attack 9.b4 and the Move 9...a5: The Promise of a Rare ChoiceThere was a night I sat in a small editing room in Nha Trang, replaying foota...
Chess"Stronger Than When They Won the Olympiad" – Which Board Can Verify a ComplimentHook I sat rewatching Divya Deshmukh's game from Budapest with headphones...
Chess9...a5 in the King's Indian: A Bayonet Antidote or Just a Fallback Sideline?When a move is advertised with the word antidote, I set up the board before I...
ChessEight Layers of Modern Chess Analysis and the Data Gap Behind Vietnam's BoardEIGHT LAYERS OF MODERN CHESS ANALYSIS AND THE DATA GAP BEHIND VIETNAM'S BOARD...
ChessSamarkand 2026: The Unassigned Room Key and the Real Move Sitting on Board OneThe Indian chess team landed in Samarkand. Roughly five hours later, team...
ChessAugust in Chess: The Petroff Returns and the Echo from Empty StandsIn my chess notebook there is a page with a single line: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6....
ChessPetroff, Two Positional Courses, and the August Rhythm of the Chess Training MarketOpening A late August evening in Saint Petersburg. Rain falls on the birch...
ChessOlympiad 2026: India's Hotel Room Scramble in Samarkand and the Organizing Committee's EndgameFour in the morning in Samarkand. An Indian chess player sits on a suitcase i...
ChessWhen the Board Has No Data: How Chess Commentary Keeps Fooling ItselfIn 2026, at the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis, Hans Niemann — then nineteen...
ChessSamarkand 2026: Organisers Fail to Forward Hotel Booking as Indian Defending Champions Wait OutsideAbout five hours. That is the gap between the moment the Indian chess team...
ChessChess Olympiad 2026: The Torch Reaches Samarkand and Three Claims That Require VerificationThe torch of the 2026 Chess Olympiad has just been passed to Samarkand, and t...
ChessThe Empty Board and the Data Trap: When Elo Is Not Enough to Tell the StoryLate one August night, I opened the data file for an international chess even...
ChessChessBase Releases Its August 2026 Product Line: The Petroff, Two Positional-Play Courses, and an Unanswered Question for Vietnamese ChessChessBase Releases Its August 2026 Product Line: The Petroff, Two...
ChessChess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India Defends Two Crowns, and the Silence of a Page Without a BroadcastThree in the morning in Saint Petersburg. Wind from the Neva slipped through...
ChessBlank Squares on the Board: When a Chess Analysis Pipeline Returns NothingThe home pitch had no stands, yet every time the ball rolled, a whole sky of...
ChessThe Samarkand Torch and the Child Holding the Flame: Three Unverified NamesThere is a four-second moment in Samarkand that I replayed three times. They...