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ChessKing's Indian Defence: The 9...a5 Move and the Trade Between Memory and PlanIn the third game of a club-level team match last August, a 2100-rated player...
ChessClutch Chess Saint Louis and Lilov's Course: One Headline, Two SubjectsI reopened that link late one evening, the position on screen still unfinishe...
ChessBudva and the Number 2715: Beneath the Summit of the European Club CupOn a Saturday morning in Budva, the pairing board went up on the corridor wal...
ChessDaniel King's 60-Minute Najdorf Update: When Opening Theory Becomes a Maintenance ProductOver the past 12 months, I have been tracking ChessBase's product catalogue a...
ChessThe Scandinavian Defense: 60 Minutes of Opening Moves, and the Rest Nobody TeachesAt minute 41 of the video, Mr. Hung hit pause and pencilled a short line into...
ChessThe Scandinavian Defense in Sixty Minutes: The Line Between Convenience and OverpromiseA club tournament in Moscow's Presnensky district, late last month. A player ...
Chess5 e5 in the Modern Italian: A Club Weapon and a Mislabelled ProductOn a late-July Sunday morning, at a coffee shop on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in...
ChessChessBase #225: A European Club Cup Headline, a Sales Page Body, and Not a Single MoveOn Tuesday night I opened the ChessBase newsletter on my second screen and di...
ChessThe Hour of the Seconds: A King's Indian DVD and the Price of SurpriseBoard 12, round four of a weekend open. Black's clock reads 41 minutes; White...
ChessBenko Gambit and FRITZ 20: When the Headline Says One Thing and the Body Says AnotherA headline advertising Grandmaster Sipke Ernst's Benko Gambit opening book. A...
ChessThe First Move of a Book: When the Benko Gambit Headline Has No Chess in ItOn the shelf of an online chess shop sits a book titled The Modern Benko Gamb...
ChessThe Move 9...a5: The Promise of a Position You Do Not Have to MemorizeThe ninth move of White was a pawn stepping forward. 9.b4. No applause, no on...
ChessThe 9...a5 Move: How a Small Pawn Tells a Big Story About How Humans Learn ChessThe 9...a5 Move: How a Small Pawn Tells a Big Story About How Humans Learn...
Chess6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: The Record 140 Teams and the Gaps Left UnfilledWhen the entry list for the 6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship fo...
ChessBodhana and the Bundesliga: The 2026 Late-Arrival Case That Shook an Entire League SystemBodhana and the Bundesliga: The 2026 Late-Arrival Case That Shook an Entire...
ChessYu Yangyi Defeats Ding Liren at Shenzhen Masters: A Shock for the World ChampionThe Shenzhen Chess Masters witnessed a shocking result as Yu Yangyi defeated...
ChessThe Gap at Move Two: The Elephant Gambit and the Limits of a Surprise WeaponI remember that moment the way I remember a defeat. On the board, after two...
ChessDeep Professional Analysis: IM Andrew Martin's Scandinavian Defense Instructional Video and the Magnus Carlsen Marketing EffectDeep Professional Analysis: IM Andrew Martin's Scandinavian Defense...
ChessThe Scotch Opening and a Story Told Wrong: From Kasparov 2026 to the Promise of 'No Need to PanicOn a small chess café on Nguyen Van Linh Street in Da Nang, I sat listening t...


