Chess
KCF Academy Third Season: A Magazine Wearing an Academy Label
9...a5 against the Bayonet and a Capablanca 2026 headline: two layers of one opening product
A Title Without a Board: Rachel Li's US Women's Championship Headline That Leads to a 60-Minute Opening Video
Rachel Li and the Championship Without a Crosstable: Anatomy of a Chess News Page
Scotch Game and the European Club Cup: A Headline Out of Step With Its Body
A 60-Minute Scandinavian Defense Course: When the Headline Names One Man and the Body Teaches Another
Three in Four Female Chess Players Report Gender Bias or Harassment: What FIDE Has and Has Not ConfirmedThere is an empty chair at board seven, girls under-12, at a national youth...
King's Indian Mar del Plata: 9...a5 and the Trade Between Memory and PlanIn a team-match game at a chess Olympiad, the player with the black pieces...
KCF Academy Third Season: A Magazine Wearing an Academy LabelIn mid-June 2026, in an unmarked corridor outside the press room of the Pragu...
9...a5 against the Bayonet and a Capablanca 2026 headline: two layers of one opening productI muted the game on move nine. On the screen, White's pawn had just landed on...
The 9...a5 Move and the Capablanca Lesson: When Defence Needs an Idea, Not a LineBuenos Aires, late August 2026. War had just broken out in Europe, the news...
A Tape Labelled Capablanca 2026, and the Lesson of 9...a5 in the King's Indian DefenceIn April 2026, Nha Trang was as silent as a stadium with its gates locked. I...
Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo win the 2026 European Club Cup: two names, and the rest left untoldIn the bulletin that day, Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo were named champions...
A Title Without a Board: Rachel Li's US Women's Championship Headline That Leads to a 60-Minute Opening VideoThe page opened with a very loud headline: Rachel Li stuns the field, wins th...
Rachel Li and the Championship Without a Crosstable: Anatomy of a Chess News PageOne headline. Fourteen content points. Thirteen of them describe a sixty-minu...
Scotch Game and the European Club Cup: A Headline Out of Step With Its BodyOn Tuesday night I reopened a slow-motion clip. No crowd, no commentator, jus...
A 60-Minute Scandinavian Defense Course: When the Headline Names One Man and the Body Teaches AnotherOn a Sunday morning, in the chess room of a small club on Nguyen Chi Thanh...
Total Chess Proposes a Unified Rating System: Four Players, Three Formats and a Data GapOn 28 November 2026, in London, the twelfth game of the World Chess...
The 5.e5! thrust in the Italian: a club weapon and the price of a line that is easy to learnA plastic chess set sits on a stainless-steel table at a coffee shop along th...
The Scandinavian in 60 Minutes: A Promise, a Mismatched Headline and the Engine TestBoard Seven, and Forty Minutes for One Move The chess club in Shenzhen closes...
9...a5 in the King's Indian: A Rare Move, a New Product, and a Data VoidThe man at board seven is not looking down at the pieces. He is looking at th...
ChessBase Magazine #225: A Headline Promises European Club Cup Results, the Body Sells a CatalogueOne Headline, One Void I read the title three times before opening the piece....
The Reckless Move in the Heart of Budva: How Andrew Martin Revived a Forgotten GambitIn a seaside hotel in Budva, where the European Club Cup has just kicked off,...
A 58-Year-Old Chess Problem: AI Proves the 63-Check Limit, But 364 Remains an Open QuestionA chess position in which, even if you want to retreat, you cannot. Every leg...
Double Agent and the 63-check record: a 58-year-old chess problem only half-solvedOn that board, every move is a threat. Every remaining legal piece, wherever ...
The Scotch Opening and the 2026 Revival: How Kasparov Gave New Life to a Forgotten OpeningI still remember that night, sitting in front of an old computer screen in Da...
The 6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: 140 Teams and an Empty StandA chess clock ticks away in a room with no spectators. No cheering, no stage...
Pin and Win: Karsten Müller and the Art of Turning Endgames into Commercial WeaponsWhen data does not lie, it is we who deceive ourselves. I have carried that...
Echoes of an Empty Board in ShenzhenThat night I stayed behind after the screen had gone dark. There was no...
Perfect Scores at the US Chess Championship: Wesley So, Awonder Liang and a Mis-merged News FeedAt five in the morning in Chengdu, the screen in my study was still on. The t...
King's Indian Mar del Plata: 9...a5 and the Trade Between Memory and PlanIn a team-match game at a chess Olympiad, the player with the black pieces...
KCF Academy Third Season: A Magazine Wearing an Academy LabelIn mid-June 2026, in an unmarked corridor outside the press room of the Pragu...
9...a5 against the Bayonet and a Capablanca 2026 headline: two layers of one opening productI muted the game on move nine. On the screen, White's pawn had just landed on...
The 9...a5 Move and the Capablanca Lesson: When Defence Needs an Idea, Not a LineBuenos Aires, late August 2026. War had just broken out in Europe, the news...
A Tape Labelled Capablanca 2026, and the Lesson of 9...a5 in the King's Indian DefenceIn April 2026, Nha Trang was as silent as a stadium with its gates locked. I...
Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo win the 2026 European Club Cup: two names, and the rest left untoldIn the bulletin that day, Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo were named champions...
A Title Without a Board: Rachel Li's US Women's Championship Headline That Leads to a 60-Minute Opening VideoThe page opened with a very loud headline: Rachel Li stuns the field, wins th...
Rachel Li and the Championship Without a Crosstable: Anatomy of a Chess News PageOne headline. Fourteen content points. Thirteen of them describe a sixty-minu...
Scotch Game and the European Club Cup: A Headline Out of Step With Its BodyOn Tuesday night I reopened a slow-motion clip. No crowd, no commentator, jus...
A 60-Minute Scandinavian Defense Course: When the Headline Names One Man and the Body Teaches AnotherOn a Sunday morning, in the chess room of a small club on Nguyen Chi Thanh...
Total Chess Proposes a Unified Rating System: Four Players, Three Formats and a Data GapOn 28 November 2026, in London, the twelfth game of the World Chess...
The 5.e5! thrust in the Italian: a club weapon and the price of a line that is easy to learnA plastic chess set sits on a stainless-steel table at a coffee shop along th...
The Scandinavian in 60 Minutes: A Promise, a Mismatched Headline and the Engine TestBoard Seven, and Forty Minutes for One Move The chess club in Shenzhen closes...
9...a5 in the King's Indian: A Rare Move, a New Product, and a Data VoidThe man at board seven is not looking down at the pieces. He is looking at th...
ChessBase Magazine #225: A Headline Promises European Club Cup Results, the Body Sells a CatalogueOne Headline, One Void I read the title three times before opening the piece....
The Reckless Move in the Heart of Budva: How Andrew Martin Revived a Forgotten GambitIn a seaside hotel in Budva, where the European Club Cup has just kicked off,...
A 58-Year-Old Chess Problem: AI Proves the 63-Check Limit, But 364 Remains an Open QuestionA chess position in which, even if you want to retreat, you cannot. Every leg...
Double Agent and the 63-check record: a 58-year-old chess problem only half-solvedOn that board, every move is a threat. Every remaining legal piece, wherever ...
The Scotch Opening and the 2026 Revival: How Kasparov Gave New Life to a Forgotten OpeningI still remember that night, sitting in front of an old computer screen in Da...
The 6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: 140 Teams and an Empty StandA chess clock ticks away in a room with no spectators. No cheering, no stage...
Pin and Win: Karsten Müller and the Art of Turning Endgames into Commercial WeaponsWhen data does not lie, it is we who deceive ourselves. I have carried that...
Echoes of an Empty Board in ShenzhenThat night I stayed behind after the screen had gone dark. There was no...
Perfect Scores at the US Chess Championship: Wesley So, Awonder Liang and a Mis-merged News FeedAt five in the morning in Chengdu, the screen in my study was still on. The t...
