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Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: An Open Map and the Price of an Update2026-10-25Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: An Open Map and the Price of an Update On a Thursda...
A Benko Gambit Headline, a FRITZ 20 Advertisement: The Trust Gap in Chess Media2026-10-17On a chess product page, a headline stops the reader: The Modern Benko Gambit...
9...a5 in the King's Indian Defense: The Dirt Road for Those Who Want to Understand2026-10-17In a small apartment on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in Da Nang, I still keep an...
The Scotch in 2034: When a Forgotten Opening Became the Next Generation's Test2026-10-15Da Nang, July 2034. Game seven of an international women's chess open. A...
Yu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren in Shenzhen: A Real Result Packaged Like a Flyer2026-10-13Last Saturday night, in a small apartment in Delhi, I turned on two screens:...
ChessSixty Minutes of Najdorf: An Open Map and the Price of an UpdateSixty Minutes of Najdorf: An Open Map and the Price of an Update On a Thursda...
ChessVua Ban's Daring Move: Why the Elephant Gambit Still Commands RespectAt a match I was following at an open tournament in Chengdu in September 2026...
ChessA Benko Gambit Headline, a FRITZ 20 Advertisement: The Trust Gap in Chess MediaOn a chess product page, a headline stops the reader: The Modern Benko Gambit...
Chess9...a5 in the King's Indian Defense: The Dirt Road for Those Who Want to UnderstandIn a small apartment on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in Da Nang, I still keep an...
ChessThe Scotch Opening: From Kasparov 2026 to an Anti-Scotch Video and the Gap in BeliefOn a product page, the headline reads: "Young British Prodigies." Immediately...
ChessThe Scotch in 2034: When a Forgotten Opening Became the Next Generation's TestDa Nang, July 2034. Game seven of an international women's chess open. A...
ChessDouble Agent and the 63-checking-move milestone: when a machine proved what humans left open for 58 yearsIn a desk drawer in Saint Petersburg, I still keep a hand-drawn grid on graph...
ChessKarsten Müller and the Endgame Economy: When a Name Is Borrowed as a SealI stop at a familiar position. A bishop pins a knight to the king — the class...
ChessYu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren in Shenzhen: A Real Result Packaged Like a FlyerLast Saturday night, in a small apartment in Delhi, I turned on two screens:...
ChessLiang beats Niemann in US Championships round one: the real story isn't in the headlineThe board has been cleared, but the echo of the first round of the US...
ChessUS Chess Championship Round One: When Liang Beat Niemann, the Real Story Isn't the ResultA game ends, and the chess world talks about the name before it talks about t...
ChessAfter 1.d4 d5: When White Avoids Theory, Black Must Know How to BreatheWhen a seventeen-year-old prodigy does not yet know he is about to become a...
ChessWhite Escapes the Slav with the London: Four Systems and Black's Defensive Problem after 1.d4 d5In the playing hall, under a yellow lamp falling onto the wooden board, a you...
ChessAn 11-Year-Old on Board One in Samarkand: 3.Bc4, 6/7, and a Performance Rating That Needs Reading RightIn the Samarkand hall, the chess clocks ticked in unison like the heartbeat o...
ChessKing's Indian Defense and the 9...a5 Move Against the Bayonet Attack: Lessons on Opening Theory and Information Verification for Vietnamese ChessIn Vietnamese chess circles, the conversation about opening theory has never...
ChessChessBase Magazine 225: How 27 Short Games Expose a Market ShiftThe number that made me pause in the release announcement for ChessBase...
ChessPrague 2026 and 27 Miniatures: Inside ChessBase Magazine #225Late at night in Da Nang, I opened the downloaded file of ChessBase Magazine...
ChessWhen White Declines 2.c4: The Preparation Burden and Seven Defensive SystemsI still remember an afternoon last November, at a small open tournament on th...
ChessLilov's Six Videos and the 'Avoiding 2.c4' Problem: When Black Is Forced to Learn All Over AgainThere is a moment that anyone who has ever sat at board seven of a chess club...
ChessBent Larsen on the Cover, Prague 2026 Inside: The Gap in a Chess ProductIn 2026, I sat on a beach in Nha Trang, phone in hand, filming an...
ChessLearning Strategy from Bent Larsen: When a Chess Legend Becomes a Commercial ProductI remember sitting in the stands at a youth chess tournament in Binh Duong,...
ChessThe e5 Pawn Push and Sveshnikov's Manifesto: The Geometry of a Central GambleThat morning, I reopened the game between Evgeny Sveshnikov and a young playe...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: When Bent Larsen's Name Sells More Than the Content InsideI have spent nearly forty-eight years reading the numbers before reading the...
ChessThe Najdorf Variation, 2026: When Chess Theory Outruns Human MemoryHanoi, autumn 2026. In the small room of a chess club, amid the smell of damp...
