Chess
Elephant Gambit: The d5 Pawn on Move Two and the Limits of a Surprise Weapon
Timur Turlov Is Not FIDE President: A False Headline and the Verification Problem Facing Vietnamese Chess
Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap: Inside the US Championships Headline Lies an Opening Gamble
Atyrau Masters: Top Two Seeds Fall and the Echo from the Chess Content Industry
The Scandinavian Defense: Reading a Low-Theory System Through a 60-Minute Video
9...a5: The Queenside Pawn Move That Slows the Bayonet Boom in the King's IndianThe parcel reached Bangalore on a June afternoon, when the rain was loud enou...
Elephant Gambit: The d5 Pawn on Move Two and the Limits of a Surprise WeaponI opened the product page at three in the morning in Chengdu and read the...
The Scotch Game: Kasparov, Mikhalchishin and the Data Hole in a Chess News ItemThe first anomaly in this news item sits in a subtraction, not in a chess mov...
Daniel King patches the Najdorf in 60 minutes while the headline calls it Vahap SanalAt three in the morning, I reopened a file in my archive. The headline read:...
Timur Turlov Is Not FIDE President: A False Headline and the Verification Problem Facing Vietnamese ChessAt 11:40 p.m., a former student from my chess club in Nha Trang sent me a lin...
A False FIDE Presidency Headline and the Verification Lesson for Vietnamese ChessIn October 2026, I sat in an edit bay in Hai Phong, scrolling slowly through...
5 e5! and the Name Bodhana Sivanandan: When an Opening Course Wears the Title of an Endgame MasterpieceDA NANG — The cafe at the end of Nguyen Chi Thanh street has four wooden...
The Hour of the Seconds: When a Single Chess Move Becomes a Story About TrustIn a small room in Nha Trang, I replayed a tape of a chess game from 2026. It...
ChessBase Magazine #225: A European Club Cup Headline, a Sales Page InsideThe headline promises a news report: European Club Cup, comfortable wins for...
King's Indian: Why 9...a5 Against the Bayonet Is a Practical Answer, Not a RefutationA student of mine, a fifteen-year-old at the chess club in Hai Chau district,...
Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap: Inside the US Championships Headline Lies an Opening GambleOn the chess news page I open every morning, the headline appeared neat and...
Atyrau Masters: Top Two Seeds Fall and the Echo from the Chess Content IndustryOpening I read that headline on a late-year morning, when Chengdu had already...
Atyrau Masters: The Top Two Seeds Fall and the Trap of a Headline Without DataThe opening rounds of the Atyrau Masters closed with a single line of result:...
The Bundesliga Controversy: Secrets of the Elephant GambitWhen the Bundesliga stands echoed with applause, I remembered a moment no one...
Karsten Müller and the Endgame Empire: When Experience Becomes a BrandThere is a moment every chess player remembers: when the clock has passed the...
FritzTrainer Signs Kostya Kavutskiy: When Chess Sells Its Teachers, Not Its MovesOn December 9, 2026, ChessBase announced two new courses in its FritzTrainer...
Awonder Liang defeats Hans Niemann at the US Championships Round 1: A game left behind by a promotional articleI was not sitting next to the board when Awonder Liang and Hans Niemann signe...
Game of the Week #743: Gaal vs Smeets — When 743 Chess Episodes Tell a Bigger Story Than One GameEvery Wednesday evening, while most Vietnamese sports fans are still picking...
Elephant Gambit: The d5 Pawn on Move Two and the Limits of a Surprise WeaponI opened the product page at three in the morning in Chengdu and read the...
The Scotch Game: Kasparov, Mikhalchishin and the Data Hole in a Chess News ItemThe first anomaly in this news item sits in a subtraction, not in a chess mov...
Daniel King patches the Najdorf in 60 minutes while the headline calls it Vahap SanalAt three in the morning, I reopened a file in my archive. The headline read:...
Timur Turlov Is Not FIDE President: A False Headline and the Verification Problem Facing Vietnamese ChessAt 11:40 p.m., a former student from my chess club in Nha Trang sent me a lin...
A False FIDE Presidency Headline and the Verification Lesson for Vietnamese ChessIn October 2026, I sat in an edit bay in Hai Phong, scrolling slowly through...
5 e5! and the Name Bodhana Sivanandan: When an Opening Course Wears the Title of an Endgame MasterpieceDA NANG — The cafe at the end of Nguyen Chi Thanh street has four wooden...
The Hour of the Seconds: When a Single Chess Move Becomes a Story About TrustIn a small room in Nha Trang, I replayed a tape of a chess game from 2026. It...
ChessBase Magazine #225: A European Club Cup Headline, a Sales Page InsideThe headline promises a news report: European Club Cup, comfortable wins for...
King's Indian: Why 9...a5 Against the Bayonet Is a Practical Answer, Not a RefutationA student of mine, a fifteen-year-old at the chess club in Hai Chau district,...
Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap: Inside the US Championships Headline Lies an Opening GambleOn the chess news page I open every morning, the headline appeared neat and...
Atyrau Masters: Top Two Seeds Fall and the Echo from the Chess Content IndustryOpening I read that headline on a late-year morning, when Chengdu had already...
Atyrau Masters: The Top Two Seeds Fall and the Trap of a Headline Without DataThe opening rounds of the Atyrau Masters closed with a single line of result:...
The Bundesliga Controversy: Secrets of the Elephant GambitWhen the Bundesliga stands echoed with applause, I remembered a moment no one...
Karsten Müller and the Endgame Empire: When Experience Becomes a BrandThere is a moment every chess player remembers: when the clock has passed the...
FritzTrainer Signs Kostya Kavutskiy: When Chess Sells Its Teachers, Not Its MovesOn December 9, 2026, ChessBase announced two new courses in its FritzTrainer...
Awonder Liang defeats Hans Niemann at the US Championships Round 1: A game left behind by a promotional articleI was not sitting next to the board when Awonder Liang and Hans Niemann signe...
Game of the Week #743: Gaal vs Smeets — When 743 Chess Episodes Tell a Bigger Story Than One GameEvery Wednesday evening, while most Vietnamese sports fans are still picking...
