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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...
ChessPetroff, Two Positional-Play Courses and the Monthly Release Rhythm: Reading the August 2026 Chess Training-Content Roundup2026-09-161.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6. Four moves, two colours, and a defence the trade calls the...
ChessPakistan Forfeits Against Israel at the 2026 Chess Olympiad: An Empty Board and a Precedent Scored as Zero2026-09-17Samarkand, September 15, 2026. The automatic pairing board at the 46th FIDE...
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...
Chess Olympiad: Gukesh on Board 4, Humpy Leading the Women and the Logic of India's LineupBoard 4 and the Paradox of a World Champion A world champion sits at board 4....
Petroff, Calculation Lessons, and an August Without a Single GameOn 13 September 2026, ChessBase published its product roundup under a short...
The Board Without Pieces — Notes on a Disappearance in the Sports PagesThat night Saigon rained. I sat in the familiar coffee shop on Nguyen Thi Min...
The Bayonet in the Dark: The Story of 9...a5 in the King's Indian DefenceIn September 2026, in Moscow, on board one of the match between Russia and th...
Petroff, Two Positional-Play Courses and the Monthly Release Rhythm: Reading the August 2026 Chess Training-Content Roundup1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6. Four moves, two colours, and a defence the trade calls the...
The 2026 Olympiad Torch Reaches Samarkand: Sindarov Receives It, but Three Titles Need VerificationI froze the frame at the ninth second. In the clip of the 2026 Chess Olympiad...
Vietnam's Chessboard and the Gap Nobody RecordedIn March 2026 the editorial office in Saint Petersburg shut its doors. The...
The Samarkand Torch and Three Names That Need VerifyingOn the morning of the torch handover in Samarkand, not a single move was...
5.e5 in the Italian: A Club Weapon and the Evidence Gap in Opening Chess ContentIn a small suburban chess club, an amateur player pushes his white pawn to 5....
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...
Chess Olympiad: Gukesh on Board 4, Humpy Leading the Women and the Logic of India's LineupBoard 4 and the Paradox of a World Champion A world champion sits at board 4....
Petroff, Calculation Lessons, and an August Without a Single GameOn 13 September 2026, ChessBase published its product roundup under a short...
The Board Without Pieces — Notes on a Disappearance in the Sports PagesThat night Saigon rained. I sat in the familiar coffee shop on Nguyen Thi Min...
The Bayonet in the Dark: The Story of 9...a5 in the King's Indian DefenceIn September 2026, in Moscow, on board one of the match between Russia and th...
Petroff, Two Positional-Play Courses and the Monthly Release Rhythm: Reading the August 2026 Chess Training-Content Roundup1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6. Four moves, two colours, and a defence the trade calls the...
The 2026 Olympiad Torch Reaches Samarkand: Sindarov Receives It, but Three Titles Need VerificationI froze the frame at the ninth second. In the clip of the 2026 Chess Olympiad...
Vietnam's Chessboard and the Gap Nobody RecordedIn March 2026 the editorial office in Saint Petersburg shut its doors. The...
The Samarkand Torch and Three Names That Need VerifyingOn the morning of the torch handover in Samarkand, not a single move was...
5.e5 in the Italian: A Club Weapon and the Evidence Gap in Opening Chess ContentIn a small suburban chess club, an amateur player pushes his white pawn to 5....