Chess
Total Chess and the Unified Rating System: A Headline Without a Body
The Scotch Game After Kasparov: Why Karpov's Nightmare Is Now Just an Ordinary Opening
Gukesh's 'Houdini' act and why India's gold medal is not yet in its own hands
An Achilles Heel Named Poland: India's Women and a Fifth-Round Defeat at the Chess Olympiad
Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo Win the 2026 European Club Cup — and What the Report Leaves OutOn a Tuesday morning in Da Nang, I opened my phone before the tea had finishe...
Wesley So and His Fourth US Championship: When Tiebreaks Write HistoryIn a playing hall so silent you could hear your own breathing, Wesley So gent...
Total Chess and the Unified Rating System: A Headline Without a BodyIn the folder labelled “2026” on my machine there is a single A4 sheet with...
140 Teams in the Dark: The 6th Prisoner Chess Championship and the Golden Moment Without an AudienceThere is a moment, just before the fingertip touches the knight, when a perso...
The Scotch Game After Kasparov: Why Karpov's Nightmare Is Now Just an Ordinary OpeningIn October 2026, in a New York playing hall, Garry Kasparov pushed 1.e4....
Gukesh's 'Houdini' act and why India's gold medal is not yet in its own handsThe ninth round of the 2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand did not begin with a...
The King Leaves the Corner: Sarana's 5.e5 and the Sveshnikov InheritanceIn my personal archive, the folder labelled Olympiad takes up nearly two...
From the Samarkand 15/16 Headline to a Product Called ChessBase 225A slow ceiling fan turned above me on a night in Nha Trang. I was sorting old...
The Scandinavian in 60 Minutes: Carlsen, Andrew Martin, and the Missing DataOn a Sunday morning in Chengdu, a nineteen-year-old club player rated around...
ChessBase Magazine #225: China Women's 15/16 in Samarkand and the Business of Reselling the Game2:40 a.m. in Delhi. I reopen the tab I left untouched since lunch. The line a...
Savitha Shri's 5/5 at the Chess Olympiad: India Beat the USA on the Bottom Boards, and the Remaining Schedule Is the Real TestOn board three of the Indian women's team, a nineteen-year-old signed the...
An Achilles Heel Named Poland: India's Women and a Fifth-Round Defeat at the Chess OlympiadThe chessboard on the small wooden table in a café on Brigade Road, Bangalore...
Eight-Way Tie in Samarkand: When a Chess Headline Wears a News MaskOpening: Reading a Headline Three Times and a Question Nobody Asks In Septemb...
Gukesh volunteers for Board 4 at Chess Olympiad: Strategic decision or sign of declining form?On the morning of August 12, 2026, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, an announcement...
Wesley So and His Fourth US Championship: When Tiebreaks Write HistoryIn a playing hall so silent you could hear your own breathing, Wesley So gent...
Total Chess and the Unified Rating System: A Headline Without a BodyIn the folder labelled “2026” on my machine there is a single A4 sheet with...
140 Teams in the Dark: The 6th Prisoner Chess Championship and the Golden Moment Without an AudienceThere is a moment, just before the fingertip touches the knight, when a perso...
The Scotch Game After Kasparov: Why Karpov's Nightmare Is Now Just an Ordinary OpeningIn October 2026, in a New York playing hall, Garry Kasparov pushed 1.e4....
Gukesh's 'Houdini' act and why India's gold medal is not yet in its own handsThe ninth round of the 2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand did not begin with a...
The King Leaves the Corner: Sarana's 5.e5 and the Sveshnikov InheritanceIn my personal archive, the folder labelled Olympiad takes up nearly two...
From the Samarkand 15/16 Headline to a Product Called ChessBase 225A slow ceiling fan turned above me on a night in Nha Trang. I was sorting old...
The Scandinavian in 60 Minutes: Carlsen, Andrew Martin, and the Missing DataOn a Sunday morning in Chengdu, a nineteen-year-old club player rated around...
ChessBase Magazine #225: China Women's 15/16 in Samarkand and the Business of Reselling the Game2:40 a.m. in Delhi. I reopen the tab I left untouched since lunch. The line a...
Savitha Shri's 5/5 at the Chess Olympiad: India Beat the USA on the Bottom Boards, and the Remaining Schedule Is the Real TestOn board three of the Indian women's team, a nineteen-year-old signed the...
An Achilles Heel Named Poland: India's Women and a Fifth-Round Defeat at the Chess OlympiadThe chessboard on the small wooden table in a café on Brigade Road, Bangalore...
Eight-Way Tie in Samarkand: When a Chess Headline Wears a News MaskOpening: Reading a Headline Three Times and a Question Nobody Asks In Septemb...
Gukesh volunteers for Board 4 at Chess Olympiad: Strategic decision or sign of declining form?On the morning of August 12, 2026, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, an announcement...
