Chess
ChessNot Playing 2.c4 Is Not a Lack of Ambition — Inside Chess's Most Invisible Coaching EconomyAt eight on a Tuesday night in a Pune club, a fourteen-year-old plays d4. The...
ChessPrague 2026 and ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures and the Untelevised Language of ChessThe 27th page of my notebook is still dog-eared. In 2026 I was sixteen, a...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Prague 2026 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and the Depreciating Price of TheoryTwenty-seven miniatures. That is the entire count for the "Special" section o...
ChessPrague 2026's 27 Miniatures: The Preparation Bill Is Paid After the Game EndsThe loudest conversations in a Prague tournament hall happen at the boards...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: Prague's 27 Miniatures, the Economics of the Clock, and the Narrowing of Opening RepertoireWhen the Prague Chess Festival 2026 material was packed into issue 225 of...
ChessPrague's 27 Miniatures, Ten Opening Articles and the Footnote That Was Not CleanOne line in the contents list of ChessBase Magazine issue 225 sits apart from...
ChessSixty Minutes, Five Lines, and the Slow Staling of Najdorf TheoryThere is a coaching room in Mylapore, Chennai — nine paces long, six wide. Th...
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Score Sheet That Never Went PublicData-Provenance Box Sample: 8 information points | 77 teams | 5 continents | ...
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Missing PGN: A System Audit of FIDE's Prison Chess Championship77 teams, five continents, three sections—and a title that argues with itself...
ChessThe First Continental Prison Chess Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents — and the Data That Hasn't Been PublishedThe date 13 May 2026 appears twice in my notebook, and both times under a...
ChessWesley So's Fourth US Title: Caruana Beaten in the Tiebreak, and the Silence in St. Louis Had a Move OrderWesley So's Fourth US Title: Caruana Beaten in the Tiebreak, and the Silence ...
ChessEleven Years Old, Board One, 2,465: The Arithmetic Behind Vietnam's Youngest IM NormOn the evening of 23 October, the air-conditioning in the hall hummed so loud...
