Chess
One Feed Line, Two Stories: Perfect Scores at the US Championship and Six Opening Videos Stitched Together2026-10-11A roadside chess club in Bangalore has no grandstand, but every time a piece ...
One Game, Two Opening Systems: When the Title and the Board Tell Two Different Stories2026-10-10On the screen, the title states it plainly: "7.b3 in the Anti-Meran system."...
Najdorf 2026: A 60-Minute Update and the Limits of Chess Theory2026-10-05The chessboard back home has no grandstand, yet every time a piece touches th...
Bodhana Sivanandan and the Elephant Gambit: When Data Tells a Different Story2026-09-30I once wrote that data never lies, but it likes to test our patience. The cas...
India and the Budapest 2026 double gold: when data outruns the Soviet legend2026-09-29On the night of 22 September 2026, in Budapest, the electronic scoreboard of...
European Club Cup 2026: Bayegan Pendik, the 2715 Roster and a Race Mis-FramedAcross the entire bulletin on the 2026 European Club Cup, exactly one human...
Total Chess Proposes a Unified Rating: Budapest 2026 Tests Formats, Not DataThe most recognisable sound at elite chess is not the piece landing on wood b...
Total Chess Proposes a Unified Rating System: A Headline Without a BodyThe press release ran to fewer than 400 words and went out on 29 August 2026....
The Scandinavian Defense and the Shadow of Carlsen: When a Blitz Weapon Is Packaged as a Club-Player CourseI reopened the online game database of Magnus Carlsen on an October night,...
When a Bundesliga Headline Meets the Najdorf: The Real Story Behind a Chess ReportThere is a moment every sports-news reader has lived through. You open a page...
Is the Scotch Really Tamed? What a Coaching Video Won't Tell YouIn 2026, Garry Kasparov played his first three moves in an order that analyst...
One Feed Line, Two Stories: Perfect Scores at the US Championship and Six Opening Videos Stitched TogetherA roadside chess club in Bangalore has no grandstand, but every time a piece ...
One Game, Two Opening Systems: When the Title and the Board Tell Two Different StoriesOn the screen, the title states it plainly: "7.b3 in the Anti-Meran system."...
Game 743: Merijn van Delft and the Discipline of Telling Chess Games for Over a DecadeWednesday evening. A room in Amsterdam. A man sits down in front of a screen,...
Eleven Years Old on Board One: Bodhana Sivanandan, 3.Bc4 and a Data Lesson from Samarkand 2026Round seven of the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, board one of England's women'...
Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, Scores 6/7 with a 2504 Performance at the 2026 Samarkand Olympiad: What the Data Actually SaysSamarkand, round seven. Board one for England's women's team. Across the boar...
Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, scores 6/7 and posts a 2504 performance at the Samarkand 2026 Chess OlympiadBodhana Sivanandan, 11, scores 6/7 and posts a 2504 performance at the...
Daniel King and the Najdorf Update: When Opening Theory Becomes a Recurring CommodityThere is a moment that anyone who has ever sat beside a player before a game...
Najdorf 2026: A 60-Minute Update and the Limits of Chess TheoryThe chessboard back home has no grandstand, yet every time a piece touches th...
