Chess
Six Opening Videos and a Prague Headline: The Crack in the Chess Content Economy
The Board Without Stands: The Paradox of Vietnamese Chess
Yom Kippur and an Empty Board in Samarkand: Israel Forfeit Round 6 at the Olympiad
Gukesh Moves Himself to Board 4 at the Chess Olympiad: The World Champion Steps Aside and the Data Behind It
ChessBase Magazine No. 225: Prague 2026, 27 Short Games and a Lesson in Conciseness
Stadium Data and the Number That Cannot Measure Applause
ChessThe Empty Result on the Analysis Board: When Vietnamese Chess Data Refuses to SpeakOn a morning in August, I opened the analysis file I had been waiting two wee...
ChessSix Opening Videos and a Prague Headline: The Crack in the Chess Content EconomyA reader opens a news page and reads a headline about the Vlastimil Hort...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Three Veteran Authors, and a Bent Larsen Name Absent from the ContentsThree names appear on the introduction page of ChessBase Magazine issue 225:...
ChessDaniel King Updates the Najdorf Sicilian: Five Opening Lines in Sixty MinutesIn a small studio, Daniel King presses the clock and begins to speak. Sixty...
ChessTsaghkadzor, the Move 9...a5, and the Quiet Split of the Chess WorldAugust in Tsaghkadzor, morning temperatures below ten degrees. The small town...
ChessThe 'FIDE Ratings October 2026' Label and Kasparov's Scotch GameThe file reached my desk on a late afternoon in Saint Petersburg, as the firs...
ChessDecoding 5.e5 in the Italian Game: A Practical Weapon for Club PlayersAt a board in a club-level team event in Mumbai, the game reached move five....
ChessThe 5.e5 Move and the Italian Game: When Memory Wins at the Club BoardOn a Saturday evening at a small chess club on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in Da...
ChessThe Board Without Stands: The Paradox of Vietnamese ChessOn the third floor of a hotel in southern Saigon there is a long room, white...
Chess9...a5 and the strategic edge: Searching for an answer to the Bayonet Attack in the King's Indian DefenseThe board stopped at move nine. White has just pushed the pawn to b4, opening...
Chess2026 National Team Chess Championship: One Point from Board 4 and Three Silences Behind19:40 on 12 August 2026, at the Hanoi Labour Culture House, the game on board...
ChessSavitha Shri and the Fifth Game: The Forgotten Pulse from Board Four of India's Women's ChessLate last week, I sat in front of my screen near midnight, rewinding Savitha...
ChessYom Kippur and an Empty Board in Samarkand: Israel Forfeit Round 6 at the OlympiadIn the footage of the Dutch team walking into the playing hall for Round 6 of...
ChessData Never Lies, But It Needs to Be Present: When a Sports Analytics System Refuses to SpeculateA 12-page chess analysis landed in my inbox this morning with a remarkable...
ChessGukesh Moves Himself to Board 4 at the Chess Olympiad: The World Champion Steps Aside and the Data Behind ItA player holding the world chess crown sits down at board four. In any team...
Chess9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: A King's Indian 'Antidote' and the Data Gap Behind ItThe file I opened this morning had two halves that did not fit together. The...
ChessKing's Indian Defense: When 9...a5 Is Marketed as an Antidote to the Bayonet AttackA chess training DVD has just hit the shelves, and its opening blurb raises a...
ChessChessBase Magazine No. 225: Prague 2026, 27 Short Games and a Lesson in ConcisenessIn a small apartment in Saint Petersburg, the February snow has not yet melte...
ChessThe Empty Analysis Sheet and the Trap of Confident CommentaryAt two in the morning, the analysis file for the next round arrived in my...
ChessThe Uneditable Board Order and the Half-Point Equation: Reading the 46th Chess Olympiad in SamarkandIn September 2026, in Budapest, I sat in the eleventh row of the BOK hall, ju...
ChessThe Final Twenty Minutes and Five Substitutions: How V-League Turned Into a War of AttritionGò Đậu, a mid-season evening. In the 76th minute, the electronic board in the...
ChessThe Final Twenty Minutes and the Fifth Substitution: The War of Attrition Nobody NamesIn the seventy-fourth minute, on a stand where I have sat long enough to...
ChessStadium Data and the Number That Cannot Measure ApplauseIn June 2026, I was nineteen, sitting in a small coffee shop on Nguyen Thi Mi...
ChessSix Opening Videos and a Prague Headline: The Crack in the Chess Content EconomyA reader opens a news page and reads a headline about the Vlastimil Hort...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Three Veteran Authors, and a Bent Larsen Name Absent from the ContentsThree names appear on the introduction page of ChessBase Magazine issue 225:...
ChessDaniel King Updates the Najdorf Sicilian: Five Opening Lines in Sixty MinutesIn a small studio, Daniel King presses the clock and begins to speak. Sixty...
ChessTsaghkadzor, the Move 9...a5, and the Quiet Split of the Chess WorldAugust in Tsaghkadzor, morning temperatures below ten degrees. The small town...
ChessThe 'FIDE Ratings October 2026' Label and Kasparov's Scotch GameThe file reached my desk on a late afternoon in Saint Petersburg, as the firs...
ChessDecoding 5.e5 in the Italian Game: A Practical Weapon for Club PlayersAt a board in a club-level team event in Mumbai, the game reached move five....
ChessThe 5.e5 Move and the Italian Game: When Memory Wins at the Club BoardOn a Saturday evening at a small chess club on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in Da...
ChessThe Board Without Stands: The Paradox of Vietnamese ChessOn the third floor of a hotel in southern Saigon there is a long room, white...
Chess9...a5 and the strategic edge: Searching for an answer to the Bayonet Attack in the King's Indian DefenseThe board stopped at move nine. White has just pushed the pawn to b4, opening...
Chess2026 National Team Chess Championship: One Point from Board 4 and Three Silences Behind19:40 on 12 August 2026, at the Hanoi Labour Culture House, the game on board...
ChessSavitha Shri and the Fifth Game: The Forgotten Pulse from Board Four of India's Women's ChessLate last week, I sat in front of my screen near midnight, rewinding Savitha...
ChessYom Kippur and an Empty Board in Samarkand: Israel Forfeit Round 6 at the OlympiadIn the footage of the Dutch team walking into the playing hall for Round 6 of...
ChessData Never Lies, But It Needs to Be Present: When a Sports Analytics System Refuses to SpeculateA 12-page chess analysis landed in my inbox this morning with a remarkable...
ChessGukesh Moves Himself to Board 4 at the Chess Olympiad: The World Champion Steps Aside and the Data Behind ItA player holding the world chess crown sits down at board four. In any team...
Chess9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: A King's Indian 'Antidote' and the Data Gap Behind ItThe file I opened this morning had two halves that did not fit together. The...
ChessKing's Indian Defense: When 9...a5 Is Marketed as an Antidote to the Bayonet AttackA chess training DVD has just hit the shelves, and its opening blurb raises a...
ChessChessBase Magazine No. 225: Prague 2026, 27 Short Games and a Lesson in ConcisenessIn a small apartment in Saint Petersburg, the February snow has not yet melte...
ChessThe Empty Analysis Sheet and the Trap of Confident CommentaryAt two in the morning, the analysis file for the next round arrived in my...
ChessThe Uneditable Board Order and the Half-Point Equation: Reading the 46th Chess Olympiad in SamarkandIn September 2026, in Budapest, I sat in the eleventh row of the BOK hall, ju...
ChessThe Final Twenty Minutes and Five Substitutions: How V-League Turned Into a War of AttritionGò Đậu, a mid-season evening. In the 76th minute, the electronic board in the...
ChessThe Final Twenty Minutes and the Fifth Substitution: The War of Attrition Nobody NamesIn the seventy-fourth minute, on a stand where I have sat long enough to...
ChessStadium Data and the Number That Cannot Measure ApplauseIn June 2026, I was nineteen, sitting in a small coffee shop on Nguyen Thi Mi...