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ChessChess Olympiad Round 9: Gukesh Pulls India Back from the Edge, but the Crack Runs Through the Other Three Boards2026-09-26The fifth hour in Samarkand. Inside the playing hall, the sound of pieces...
ChessBent Larsen, the Scandinavian Defence, and How an Opening Gets Sold to Club Players2026-09-19In 2026, in Belgrade, Bent Larsen pushed his b-pawn to b3 on the very first...
ChessThe Unplayed Move: The World Chess Olympiad and the Boycott in Samarkand2026-09-17In Samarkand, in the great hall where more than 390 national teams had...
ChessThe Empty Analysis Table and the Three-Source Discipline: What Chess Journalism Learns When Data Falls Silent2026-09-17At two in the morning on August 13, 2026, I opened an analysis file. The tabl...
ChessPetroff, Calculation Lessons, and an August Without a Single Game2026-09-16On 13 September 2026, ChessBase published its product roundup under a short...
ChessThe Board Without Pieces — Notes on a Disappearance in the Sports Pages2026-09-16That night Saigon rained. I sat in the familiar coffee shop on Nguyen Thi Min...
Chess Olympiad Round 9: Gukesh Pulls India Back from the Edge, but the Crack Runs Through the Other Three BoardsThe fifth hour in Samarkand. Inside the playing hall, the sound of pieces...
Samarkand, the Scandinavian, and the Line Between Elite News and a Sixty-Minute ShortcutI remember an evening last September, in a coffee shop in Thu Dau Mot, a...
The 60-Minute Scandinavian Course: When Carlsen's Name Becomes the ProofIn a video that runs exactly 60 minutes, a chess course presents an idea in t...
Elephant Gambit: A 60-Minute Opening Course, a Prodigy's Name in the Headline, and a Data VacuumOn Tuesday evening I reopened a chess content page before going on air. The...
King's Indian Defense: When 9...a5 Becomes the Answer to the Bayonet AttackI still remember an evening at the Nha Trang chess club about ten years ago,...
Three Moves That Cost a Match: India, Nihal Sarin and the Morale Management Play at the Chess OlympiadThe clock showed exactly 30 minutes remaining, and the evaluation bar jumped ...
Gukesh and Board 4: When the World Champion Chose to Step Back at the Chess OlympiadAn empty stadium, yet the applause of 2026 still echoes in every old record. ...
Bent Larsen, the Scandinavian Defence, and How an Opening Gets Sold to Club PlayersIn 2026, in Belgrade, Bent Larsen pushed his b-pawn to b3 on the very first...
The Ninth Move 9...a5 and the Data Test: When a Chess DVD Promises More Than Theory ConfirmsIn my analysis room in Shenzhen, I keep a years-long habit: whenever an...
Pakistan Forfeits Against Israel at the 2026 Chess Olympiad: An Empty Board and a Precedent Scored as ZeroSamarkand, September 15, 2026. The automatic pairing board at the 46th FIDE...
The Unplayed Move: The World Chess Olympiad and the Boycott in SamarkandIn Samarkand, in the great hall where more than 390 national teams had...
A Night Unlike Any Other: When the Bayonet Attack Meets 9...a52:47 in the morning. A small apartment in Binh Duong, lit only by the blue gl...
The Empty Analysis Table and the Three-Source Discipline: What Chess Journalism Learns When Data Falls SilentAt two in the morning on August 13, 2026, I opened an analysis file. The tabl...
Chess Olympiad: Gukesh to play board 4 for India, Humpy leads women's team — the Elo-balancing puzzle of a federation at its peakWhen I first read that Gukesh D — the reigning World Chess Champion — would b...
Samarkand, the Scandinavian, and the Line Between Elite News and a Sixty-Minute ShortcutI remember an evening last September, in a coffee shop in Thu Dau Mot, a...
The 60-Minute Scandinavian Course: When Carlsen's Name Becomes the ProofIn a video that runs exactly 60 minutes, a chess course presents an idea in t...
Elephant Gambit: A 60-Minute Opening Course, a Prodigy's Name in the Headline, and a Data VacuumOn Tuesday evening I reopened a chess content page before going on air. The...
King's Indian Defense: When 9...a5 Becomes the Answer to the Bayonet AttackI still remember an evening at the Nha Trang chess club about ten years ago,...
Three Moves That Cost a Match: India, Nihal Sarin and the Morale Management Play at the Chess OlympiadThe clock showed exactly 30 minutes remaining, and the evaluation bar jumped ...
Gukesh and Board 4: When the World Champion Chose to Step Back at the Chess OlympiadAn empty stadium, yet the applause of 2026 still echoes in every old record. ...
Bent Larsen, the Scandinavian Defence, and How an Opening Gets Sold to Club PlayersIn 2026, in Belgrade, Bent Larsen pushed his b-pawn to b3 on the very first...
The Ninth Move 9...a5 and the Data Test: When a Chess DVD Promises More Than Theory ConfirmsIn my analysis room in Shenzhen, I keep a years-long habit: whenever an...
Pakistan Forfeits Against Israel at the 2026 Chess Olympiad: An Empty Board and a Precedent Scored as ZeroSamarkand, September 15, 2026. The automatic pairing board at the 46th FIDE...
The Unplayed Move: The World Chess Olympiad and the Boycott in SamarkandIn Samarkand, in the great hall where more than 390 national teams had...
A Night Unlike Any Other: When the Bayonet Attack Meets 9...a52:47 in the morning. A small apartment in Binh Duong, lit only by the blue gl...
The Empty Analysis Table and the Three-Source Discipline: What Chess Journalism Learns When Data Falls SilentAt two in the morning on August 13, 2026, I opened an analysis file. The tabl...
Chess Olympiad: Gukesh to play board 4 for India, Humpy leads women's team — the Elo-balancing puzzle of a federation at its peakWhen I first read that Gukesh D — the reigning World Chess Champion — would b...