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A FIDE President Who Does Not Exist: Decoding the Structure of a FRITZ 20 Promo ArticleThe head of FIDE, Timur Turlov, met with President of Cyprus Nikos...
What a Misplaced SHB Da Nang Tape Taught Me About Reading a False HeadlineIn 2026, at twenty-five, I loaded the wrong tape for the SHB Da Nang match...
Scandinavian Defense: Andrew Martin's 60-Minute Course, an Overpromise and a Headline That Names the Wrong ManAt 1:47 in the morning, I clicked a link shared in a chess reporters' group i...
Total Chess opens Budapest pilot while the unified rating system stays a headlineOn 29 August 2026 a short chess bulletin moved through specialist channels...
The Elephant Gambit and Andrew Martin's 60 Minutes: Surprise Weapon or Misplaced Investment?Ho Chi Minh City, October 12, 2026 Last weekend, at a chess cafe on Nguyen Du...
The Elephant's Gambit: How Andrew Martin Revives a 'Lost' Opening in the Engine EraIn the commentary box at Nizhny Novgorod in 2026, I once timed every pressing...
The Second Move and the 60-Minute Gap: Lessons from an Opening GambleOn a quiet evening in Chiang Mai, I opened the electronic board and set the...
The Forgotten Move: When a 'Review' Reviews No Opening At AllThere is a moment in the chess world I remember vividly, though it has nothin...
Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027: A Headline With No Tournament, and a 60-Minute Scandinavian CourseThe page opens with four words: “Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027”. Directly...
AI Proves 63 Checking Moves Is the Maximum: What Double Agent Solved and What Remains OpenIn 2026, in a VTC studio, I had fourteen minutes on air to explain something...
Atyrau Masters and Issue 225: When the Chess World Sells a Story Instead of a MoveI opened that morning's bulletin again, and the first thing that hit me was n...
Chess Course Decoding the Scotch Defense: Secrets from Kasparov to MikhalchishinIn the world of chess, opening variations that seem long forgotten sometimes...
Deep Analysis: Scandinavian Defense Instructional Video and the FIDE Title ParadoxIn the volatile world of chess, where every move can determine the fate of a...
The Elephant Gambit and the Bundesliga Dispute: Lessons from a Brochure Dressed as NewsOn August 14, I opened a piece of news labelled "A dispute in the Bundesliga"...
The Elephant Gambit: A Second-Move Move and the Line Between Surprise and RecklessnessMove two. A black pawn leaves d7, lands on d5, right after White has develope...
Yu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren at Shenzhen Masters: A Notable Result and the Gaps That Need VerificationThe game ended, and the name on the winning side was Yu Yangyi. Sitting...
When Theory Never Sleeps: Daniel King and the Breathing Pace of a Najdorf GameIn the last three top-level chess tournaments, there is a number few notice:...
US Chess Championship: Two Flawless Scores and the Echo of an Invisible MarketIn the playing hall of the US Chess Championship, only a few steps separate t...
Liang Beats Niemann in the US Championship First Round: One Headline, Two StoriesI read that headline on a weekend evening, just after closing my notebook on ...
Kavutskiy, Ris, Sokolov and the ChessBase Instructional-Content WarOn the ChessBase product page, amid a FritzTrainer catalogue as dense as an...
