Chess
A Capablanca Headline, a 9...a5 Body: Auditing the King's Indian DVD That Sold Two Different Stories
ChessBase Magazine #225: Reading Prague 2026’s 27 Miniatures as a Prep-versus-Clock Ledger
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian — And a Headline That Was Never in This Room
A Chess Course Sold as Chess News: Caruana and Nakamura in the Headline, the London System in the Body
A Chess Course Sold as Chess News: Caruana and Nakamura in the Headline, the London System in the BodyA headline surfaced on my screen a few days ago — Saint Louis, Clutch Chess,...
A Capablanca Headline, a 9...a5 Body: Auditing the King's Indian DVD That Sold Two Different StoriesLast week I opened the product page for an opening DVD. The headline read: “A...
A Clutch Chess Headline Selling a Video Course: Auditing the Caruana–Nakamura BaitA Clutch Chess Headline Selling a Video Course: Auditing the Caruana–Nakamura...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures from Prague 2026, and the Chess Economy That Never StreamsLast week I read a magazine's contents page the way I read a cross-table....
Prague's 27 Miniatures: Is Chess Getting Sharper, or Is Preparation Leaking?The 27 miniatures selected from the 2026 Prague Chess Festival carry the...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Reading Prague 2026’s 27 Miniatures as a Prep-versus-Clock LedgerThe first thing I did when I opened the new ChessBase Magazine was count: 27....
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Daniel King's Update Sells Maintenance, Not TheoryThere were 214 boards in that Secunderabad hall, nineteen of them occupied by...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Unfinished Ledger of the Prison Chess ChampionshipOn that May 2026 morning when FIDE opened the first Continental Chess...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague's 27 Miniatures and the Ledger Behind ThemChessBase Magazine #225 gives its 'Special' section to 27 miniatures —...
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures: Chess's Shortest Lesson, Its Longest ShadowTwenty-Seven Short Games from Prague In that hall in Prague, the fastest soun...
77 Teams Behind Bars, Zero Ratings: The Real Scoreboard of the Prisoners' Chess ChampionshipIn September 2026, on my own campus in Bengaluru, I set up 32 boards for an...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian — And a Headline That Was Never in This RoomThe file arrived with a headline: "Rachel Li stunningly wins US Women's...
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines: The Najdorf Update Hidden Behind a NATO Championship Headline2:44 a.m. Two tabs were open on the laptop in a one-bedroom flat in Andheri....