Chess
King's Indian: The 9...a5 Antidote and Capablanca's Final JourneyAugust 2026, Buenos Aires baked like a furnace. In the hall of the eighth Che...
Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo Win the 2026 European Club Cup: A Headline Missing Its BoardOn the ChessBase homepage, the headline arrived as compact as a football...
Rachel Li and the US Women's Chess Championship: The Headline, the Board, and the Gap in BetweenThe black queen steps onto the board on move two. Among all the opening syste...
European Club Cup Before the Final Round: The Title Sits on Boards Three and FourTwelve top seeds entered round four of the European Club Cup. Eleven of them...
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in a Tiebreak: A Fourth US Title and the Price of a FormatThree in the morning in Da Nang, the ceiling fan humming like a hive, and on...
108 Teams in Budva, the 2715 Line, and a Headline Without a BodyBudva, Montenegro. The round-two pairing sheet is taped to the hotel corridor...
5 e5! in the Modern Italian: A Club-Level Weapon and the Data Gap Behind a 60-Minute VideoMoscow, a Thursday evening in late January. Board four of a chess club in a...
King's Indian: 9...a5 and the Promise of Escaping Memorisation — Right Demand, Wrong ArgumentBoard seven, round four of a weekend open. The White player's clock dropped...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Four Names, Twenty-Seven Miniatures, and a Void Named Women's ChessThe ChessBase homepage, one late-autumn morning. The headline sits directly...
9...a5 in the King's Indian: The Real Edge Lies in Preparation Cost, Not Opening SuperiorityNovember 2026, a small chess club on Bolshaya Pereyaslavskaya in Moscow. I sa...
ChessBase #225: the headline sells news, the body sells a habitThe promotional page for ChessBase Magazine issue 225 opens with a headline...
The Elephant Gambit and the 60-Minute Package: The Cost of Memorisation in ChessOn board seven of a rapid tournament in Da Nang, the player with the black...
The Chess Game Without Spectators: Lessons from a Mismatched Product PageOn a late afternoon in Nha Trang, I reopened a chess product page a young...
King's Indian, 9...a5: the move for players who want to think for themselvesWednesday, ten at night, a second-floor training room of a small chess club o...
