Chess
NATO Chess Championship: The Real Story Behind Vahap Sanal and Türkiye's Win, and an Incomplete ReportA story has been circulating in the chess world for the past few days—Turkish...
Total Chess's Budapest Pilot: A Rating-System Headline With No Rating Data in the BodyThe story landed on 29 August 2026. A tournament in Budapest, 10 to 21...
Auditing the Italian 5.e5 Line: Sound Technique, a Borrowed HeadlineLast week I opened a training package. The title read: 'Endgame Magic #340:...
Nicosia, an Unsourced FIDE Presidency Claim, and the Fritz 20 Ad Inside the NewsNicosia, a Caption A photograph from the presidential office in Nicosia shows...
Italian Game 5.e5: A Transpositional Weapon for Club Players, and the Title-Content Gap Nobody AuditedThe title of a video series read: “Endgame Magic #340: Three recent pearls wi...
Budva's European Club Cup and the Elephant Gambit: One Headline, Two Different StoriesThe news that the European Club Cup kicks off in Budva is printed on the same...
A Benko Gambit Cover, a Fritz 20 Body: When the Catalogue Cannot Recognise Its Own ProductThe first line of the product page was unambiguous: "Review: The Modern Benko...
Total Chess Budapest Pilot: Four Players, Eleven Days, and a 'Unified Rating' Claim With No ReceiptTotal Chess's announcement carries seven information points. One of them is a...
60 Minutes and the Elephant Gambit: The Real Price of a Chess 'Surprise Weapon'I read the headline three times: the European Club Cup kicks off in Budva. Th...
A Benko Gambit Review or a Fritz 20 Ad? Two Products on One PageTwo forty-seven in the morning. Rain coming off Geylang Road, and two tabs op...
The 5.e5 Italian: Sveshnikov's Imprimatur, Black's Three Replies, and a Headline That Was Selling Something ElseIt was nearly one in the morning. On the laptop, a numbered chess series...
Total Chess Headline Promises a Unified Rating System; the Body Delivers Four Players and Eleven DaysHook On 29 August 2026 a chess item went out under a headline promising a...
Scandinavian Defense: The 60-Minute Claim and Carlsen's Uncited EvidenceA 60-minute video on the Scandinavian Defense, presented by IM Andrew Martin,...
The Sixty-Minute Packaging of the Scandinavian Defence: Where Carlsen's Name Sells and the Board Goes MissingA product page landed on my screen last week and I could not close it for ten...
Total Chess's Budapest Pilot: Four Players, Three Formats, and Three Empty Columns in the LedgerKolkata morning, cold coffee, and a headline on the screen: “Total Chess...
Total Chess's Budapest Pilot: A Rating-System Headline With No Rating Data in the BodyThe story landed on 29 August 2026. A tournament in Budapest, 10 to 21...
Auditing the Italian 5.e5 Line: Sound Technique, a Borrowed HeadlineLast week I opened a training package. The title read: 'Endgame Magic #340:...
Nicosia, an Unsourced FIDE Presidency Claim, and the Fritz 20 Ad Inside the NewsNicosia, a Caption A photograph from the presidential office in Nicosia shows...
Italian Game 5.e5: A Transpositional Weapon for Club Players, and the Title-Content Gap Nobody AuditedThe title of a video series read: “Endgame Magic #340: Three recent pearls wi...
Budva's European Club Cup and the Elephant Gambit: One Headline, Two Different StoriesThe news that the European Club Cup kicks off in Budva is printed on the same...
A Benko Gambit Cover, a Fritz 20 Body: When the Catalogue Cannot Recognise Its Own ProductThe first line of the product page was unambiguous: "Review: The Modern Benko...
Total Chess Budapest Pilot: Four Players, Eleven Days, and a 'Unified Rating' Claim With No ReceiptTotal Chess's announcement carries seven information points. One of them is a...
60 Minutes and the Elephant Gambit: The Real Price of a Chess 'Surprise Weapon'I read the headline three times: the European Club Cup kicks off in Budva. Th...
A Benko Gambit Review or a Fritz 20 Ad? Two Products on One PageTwo forty-seven in the morning. Rain coming off Geylang Road, and two tabs op...
The 5.e5 Italian: Sveshnikov's Imprimatur, Black's Three Replies, and a Headline That Was Selling Something ElseIt was nearly one in the morning. On the laptop, a numbered chess series...
Total Chess Headline Promises a Unified Rating System; the Body Delivers Four Players and Eleven DaysHook On 29 August 2026 a chess item went out under a headline promising a...
Scandinavian Defense: The 60-Minute Claim and Carlsen's Uncited EvidenceA 60-minute video on the Scandinavian Defense, presented by IM Andrew Martin,...
The Sixty-Minute Packaging of the Scandinavian Defence: Where Carlsen's Name Sells and the Board Goes MissingA product page landed on my screen last week and I could not close it for ten...
Total Chess's Budapest Pilot: Four Players, Three Formats, and Three Empty Columns in the LedgerKolkata morning, cold coffee, and a headline on the screen: “Total Chess...