Chess
European Club Cup: Comfortable Wins for the Favourites, but the Magazine's Cover Says Something Else
Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye Win the NATO Chess Championship: One Title, Two Stories, and the Question Nobody Is Asking
Endgame Magic #340 Sells Bodhana Sivanandan; the Body Sells an Italian 5.e5 Repertoire
Bodhana in the Title, Italian Game in the Body: The Double Ledger of a Coaching Video
European Club Cup: Comfortable Wins for the Favourites, but the Magazine's Cover Says Something ElseThe European Club Cup results were announced on a magazine cover. But the...
FIDE President Timur Turlov in Cyprus: Where FRITZ 20 Is Being Sold Inside a Governance StoryA meeting in Nicosia, one headline, and three paragraphs of software promotio...
The Elephant Gambit's Real Bet Is on the Headline, Not the BoardI opened the page to read about the European Club Cup starting in Budva. The...
Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye Win the NATO Chess Championship: One Title, Two Stories, and the Question Nobody Is AskingA habit of the Kolkata press box: when a story arrives, grab it by the neck a...
Norway Chess's Budapest Experiment: The First Step of 'Total Chess' and the Unresolved Question of a Unified Rating SystemIf you can hear the ticking of a wall clock in a hotel conference hall in...
From a 214-Board Hall to the Nicosia Presidential Palace: Chess Power Politics and Its Silent CostA meeting took place in Nicosia. Between the President of Cyprus and the FIDE...
The Sharp 5.e5 Line and the Weight of Headline #340: An Honest Report on the Italian GameThe notation for that branch of the Italian Game runs like this: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf...
Total Chess Budapest Pilot: A 'Unified Rating System' in the Headline, Not One Rating Number in the DocumentThe release that landed on the evening of 29 August 2026 carried a large clai...
Endgame Magic #340 Sells Bodhana Sivanandan; the Body Sells an Italian 5.e5 RepertoireTwo things were open on my desk in Kolkata: a stopwatch and a product file. T...
A Nicosia Protocol, a FIDE Stress Test: When Chess-Governance News Arrives With an AdI begin with a photograph from Nicosia, because this news item contains almos...
European Club Cup: The 2715 Average and the Half-Board-Point MarginAfter round two of the European Club Cup, one number on the scoreboard says...
Bodhana in the Title, Italian Game in the Body: The Double Ledger of a Coaching VideoIf you open a laptop late at night in a Hyderabad club library and read the...
Benko Gambit Repertoire Review: A Product File With Adjectives but No Spec SheetThe first page of the file looked ordinary. The title read: "Review: The Mode...
A Comfortable-Wins Headline, Zero Games in the Ledger: Auditing ChessBase Magazine #225Before opening the contents page of issue 225, I did a small thing: I wrote t...
Endgame Magic #340: Bodhana Sivanandan on the Cover, an Italian 5.e5 Survey Inside — Auditing a Two-Door Surprise LineThe issue is numbered 340. The cover says 'Endgame Magic' and carries the nam...
ChessBase Magazine #225: An ECCC Headline, a Prague Page, and the Biased Sample of 27 MiniaturesChessBase Magazine #225: An ECCC Headline, a Prague Page, and the Biased Samp...
Total Chess: Four Names in Budapest, and the Missing Rating SystemThe headline on the press note dated 29 August 2026 says “unified rating...
Easy Wins on the Cover, Prague 2026 Inside: What a Chess Magazine's Pages RevealAround eleven at night I opened the PDF of the issue. The cover carried it in...
FIDE President Timur Turlov in Cyprus: Where FRITZ 20 Is Being Sold Inside a Governance StoryA meeting in Nicosia, one headline, and three paragraphs of software promotio...
The Elephant Gambit's Real Bet Is on the Headline, Not the BoardI opened the page to read about the European Club Cup starting in Budva. The...
Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye Win the NATO Chess Championship: One Title, Two Stories, and the Question Nobody Is AskingA habit of the Kolkata press box: when a story arrives, grab it by the neck a...
Norway Chess's Budapest Experiment: The First Step of 'Total Chess' and the Unresolved Question of a Unified Rating SystemIf you can hear the ticking of a wall clock in a hotel conference hall in...
From a 214-Board Hall to the Nicosia Presidential Palace: Chess Power Politics and Its Silent CostA meeting took place in Nicosia. Between the President of Cyprus and the FIDE...
The Sharp 5.e5 Line and the Weight of Headline #340: An Honest Report on the Italian GameThe notation for that branch of the Italian Game runs like this: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf...
Total Chess Budapest Pilot: A 'Unified Rating System' in the Headline, Not One Rating Number in the DocumentThe release that landed on the evening of 29 August 2026 carried a large clai...
Endgame Magic #340 Sells Bodhana Sivanandan; the Body Sells an Italian 5.e5 RepertoireTwo things were open on my desk in Kolkata: a stopwatch and a product file. T...
A Nicosia Protocol, a FIDE Stress Test: When Chess-Governance News Arrives With an AdI begin with a photograph from Nicosia, because this news item contains almos...
European Club Cup: The 2715 Average and the Half-Board-Point MarginAfter round two of the European Club Cup, one number on the scoreboard says...
Bodhana in the Title, Italian Game in the Body: The Double Ledger of a Coaching VideoIf you open a laptop late at night in a Hyderabad club library and read the...
Benko Gambit Repertoire Review: A Product File With Adjectives but No Spec SheetThe first page of the file looked ordinary. The title read: "Review: The Mode...
A Comfortable-Wins Headline, Zero Games in the Ledger: Auditing ChessBase Magazine #225Before opening the contents page of issue 225, I did a small thing: I wrote t...
Endgame Magic #340: Bodhana Sivanandan on the Cover, an Italian 5.e5 Survey Inside — Auditing a Two-Door Surprise LineThe issue is numbered 340. The cover says 'Endgame Magic' and carries the nam...
ChessBase Magazine #225: An ECCC Headline, a Prague Page, and the Biased Sample of 27 MiniaturesChessBase Magazine #225: An ECCC Headline, a Prague Page, and the Biased Samp...
Total Chess: Four Names in Budapest, and the Missing Rating SystemThe headline on the press note dated 29 August 2026 says “unified rating...
Easy Wins on the Cover, Prague 2026 Inside: What a Chess Magazine's Pages RevealAround eleven at night I opened the PDF of the issue. The cover carried it in...
