Chess
A 60-Minute Patch for the Najdorf: Daniel King and the Problem of Keeping a Repertoire CurrentThe third game of the evening. The man at the corner table pushed his a-pawn ...
ChessBase Magazine #225: a European Club Cup headline, a body of 27 miniatures and four annotatorsThe promotional page for ChessBase Magazine #225 opens with a headline that...
Benko Gambit, FRITZ 20, and the Gap Between the Headline and the PageSaturday morning, a café at the end of Tran Phu Street, Nha Trang. A...
US Championships: Woodward beats Caruana, Lee widens the gap — and the Elephant Gambit course hiding behind the headlineOne morning, while scrolling through international chess news with a long-col...
AI Solves a 58-Year-Old Chess Problem: 63 Is Real, “Chess Solved” Is a Fairy TaleAn AI system named Double Agent has just proved something nobody managed in 5...
Pin and Win: The Journey of Karsten Müller to Becoming One of the World's Leading Endgame ExpertsIn the summer of 2026, from the stands of Hang Day Stadium, I witnessed for t...
Karsten Müller and the craft of decoding endgames: real authority, labels that need verificationOn a chessboard there is one phase where truth no longer depends on the...
The 5.e5 Move and the Strange Comforts of Superstition on the ChessboardOn a Thursday evening at a small chess club on the second floor of an old...
The FIDE President Is Not Named Turlov: A False Headline and a Game With No PlayerWinter in Saint Petersburg always arrives ahead of schedule. By September the...
King's Indian Defense: The 9...a5 Move, the Bayonet Attack, and the Line Between Memory and UnderstandingThis summer, in a small cafe on Nguyen Thien Thuat Street in Nha Trang, I sat...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Hidden Map of the Chess Content MarketA chess training publication enters the market through four parallel...
ChessBase Magazine #225 Released: Prague Festival 2026 in Focus, 27 Miniatures and 10 Opening ArticlesTwenty-seven miniatures. Ten opening articles. Three opening-video authors. O...
The 5.e5! Push in the Italian Game: A Practical Weapon and a Two-Way Trap for Club PlayersA club-game board often opens identically: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6. From...
Learning Strategy from Bent Larsen: What Is Really Inside ChessBase Magazine #225In my archive in Nha Trang there is a stack of old ChessBase CDs, their plast...
ChessBase Magazine Issue 225: Strategy Lessons from Bent Larsen and the Line Between Promotion and Training ValueWhen issue 225 of ChessBase Magazine hit the shelves, the headline caught my...
ChessBase Magazine No. 225: The Cover Names Bent Larsen, the Contents Do NotOn the cover is Bent Larsen. In the table of contents, he is not. Bent Larsen...
Daniel King's 60-Minute Najdorf Update and the Data Gap Behind ItA record entered my system with a headline about the decisions of the FIDE...
The Scandinavian Defense: A Knight Swaps Squares and the Promise of a SystemIn the database I open every morning, the number of Magnus Carlsen games that...
ChessBase Magazine #225: a European Club Cup headline, a body of 27 miniatures and four annotatorsThe promotional page for ChessBase Magazine #225 opens with a headline that...
Benko Gambit, FRITZ 20, and the Gap Between the Headline and the PageSaturday morning, a café at the end of Tran Phu Street, Nha Trang. A...
US Championships: Woodward beats Caruana, Lee widens the gap — and the Elephant Gambit course hiding behind the headlineOne morning, while scrolling through international chess news with a long-col...
AI Solves a 58-Year-Old Chess Problem: 63 Is Real, “Chess Solved” Is a Fairy TaleAn AI system named Double Agent has just proved something nobody managed in 5...
Pin and Win: The Journey of Karsten Müller to Becoming One of the World's Leading Endgame ExpertsIn the summer of 2026, from the stands of Hang Day Stadium, I witnessed for t...
Karsten Müller and the craft of decoding endgames: real authority, labels that need verificationOn a chessboard there is one phase where truth no longer depends on the...
The 5.e5 Move and the Strange Comforts of Superstition on the ChessboardOn a Thursday evening at a small chess club on the second floor of an old...
The FIDE President Is Not Named Turlov: A False Headline and a Game With No PlayerWinter in Saint Petersburg always arrives ahead of schedule. By September the...
King's Indian Defense: The 9...a5 Move, the Bayonet Attack, and the Line Between Memory and UnderstandingThis summer, in a small cafe on Nguyen Thien Thuat Street in Nha Trang, I sat...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Hidden Map of the Chess Content MarketA chess training publication enters the market through four parallel...
ChessBase Magazine #225 Released: Prague Festival 2026 in Focus, 27 Miniatures and 10 Opening ArticlesTwenty-seven miniatures. Ten opening articles. Three opening-video authors. O...
The 5.e5! Push in the Italian Game: A Practical Weapon and a Two-Way Trap for Club PlayersA club-game board often opens identically: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6. From...
Learning Strategy from Bent Larsen: What Is Really Inside ChessBase Magazine #225In my archive in Nha Trang there is a stack of old ChessBase CDs, their plast...
ChessBase Magazine Issue 225: Strategy Lessons from Bent Larsen and the Line Between Promotion and Training ValueWhen issue 225 of ChessBase Magazine hit the shelves, the headline caught my...
ChessBase Magazine No. 225: The Cover Names Bent Larsen, the Contents Do NotOn the cover is Bent Larsen. In the table of contents, he is not. Bent Larsen...
Daniel King's 60-Minute Najdorf Update and the Data Gap Behind ItA record entered my system with a headline about the decisions of the FIDE...
The Scandinavian Defense: A Knight Swaps Squares and the Promise of a SystemIn the database I open every morning, the number of Magnus Carlsen games that...
