Chess
The Hour of 9...a5: Hunting a Closed Door in the Mar del Plata, and the Price the Blurb Never QuotesI still remember that room — the third floor of that Kalyani Nagar building,...
The FIDE President Claim and the FRITZ 20 Ad: Why the Cyprus Meeting Headline Is IncompleteTwo sentences sit together in a Nicosia report, and they should not. The firs...
Magnus Carlsen's Claim: AI Taught Us Humans Are Not as Great as We ThoughtIn a room in Kolkata, with the Budapest event playing on the TV screen, I rea...
A NATO Chess Title and a Najdorf Video: One Headline, Two Different WorldsThe Headline That Stopped Me Last week, scrolling through a chess feed over...
One Line from Nicosia and the Heaviest Chair in ChessSome stories arrive as carbon copies, then ask to be written in pencil. Augus...
European Club Cup: Five Contenders in the 2/2 Bracket, and a Round-Three Collision Built by Swiss ArithmeticOn the morning of October 19, 2026, the European Club Cup scoreboard offers a...
Carlsen Says AI Shrank the Human Edge; Before Budapest, the Real Question Is StaminaJust over one million dollars. That is the prize figure attached to the...
European Club Cup: A 2715 Average Among 108 Teams, and the Half Board Point the Title Hangs OnBefore the round-three pairings went up on the wall, I went looking for the...
9...a5: Auditing the King's Indian 'Antidote' That Ships Without a PrescriptionNine information points, zero moves. Last week a club player in Ahmedabad...
Benko Gambit or Fritz 20? The Identity Crisis of a Product ReviewHook: When Title and Content Fight Each Other When I read the title of this...
The Slow Step of 9...a5: What the Bayonet Attack's 'Antidote' in the Mar del Plata Actually CostsThat Disc, That Pawn On the cover of the DVD a black pawn stands on a5 — one...
A NATO Title, a Najdorf DVD, and the Score Sheet Nobody KeptThe first clue was a score sheet nobody thought to keep. Vahap Sanal and Team...
European Club Cup: The 2715 Average and the Three-Quarter Board Point GapIn the team-match hall in Budva, Montenegro, one number speaks louder than an...
European Club Cup: The Ledger Behind the Favourites' Comfortable WinsIn November 2026, at the Hyatt Regency in Chennai, I sat through all ten game...
The Italian Game's 5.e5 Line: Where Theory Ends, Preparation Cost BeginsThe Italian Game's Modern Variation and the 5.e5 shock — a line that lives in...
