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ChessChess Behind the Locked Door: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Scoresheet That Was Never Sent2026-10-24A chess story usually begins with a move. This one begins with what nobody...
ChessA Rachel Li Headline, an Andrew Martin Body: Two Stories in One File2026-10-24Two stories arrived in a single file. The top line says Rachel Li stunningly...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: Prague's 27 Miniatures, Aravindh's Notebook, and the Ledger of Annotation2026-10-25At 1:40 a.m. in Singapore I opened the booklet PDF of ChessBase Magazine #225...
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents, Three Sections — and Not a Single Player's Name2026-10-25In August 2026, in a small room in Saint Petersburg, I commentated the final ...
ChessThe IM Claim at Eleven: A Real 2,465 Performance Rating, and a Calendar That Does Not Add Up2026-10-24The last round sits in my register in two columns. On the board side: black...
ChessEleven Years, Seven Months, Sixteen Days: The Scorecard Behind an IM Norm, and the Blanks Inside It2026-10-24Seven rounds on board one, five and a half points — five wins, one draw, one...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague's 27 Miniatures, Aravindh's Notebook, and the Ledger of AnnotationAt 1:40 a.m. in Singapore I opened the booklet PDF of ChessBase Magazine #225...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Three Sections — and Not a Single Player's NameIn August 2026, in a small room in Saint Petersburg, I commentated the final ...
The IM Claim at Eleven: A Real 2,465 Performance Rating, and a Calendar That Does Not Add UpThe last round sits in my register in two columns. On the board side: black...
Eleven Years, Seven Months, Sixteen Days: The Scorecard Behind an IM Norm, and the Blanks Inside ItSeven rounds on board one, five and a half points — five wins, one draw, one...
Chess Behind the Locked Door: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Scoresheet That Was Never SentA chess story usually begins with a move. This one begins with what nobody...
A Najdorf Headline, Elephant Gambit Goods: Auditing a 60-Minute CourseA chess course product page was open on my screen on a Wednesday afternoon. T...
A Rachel Li Headline, an Andrew Martin Body: Two Stories in One FileTwo stories arrived in a single file. The top line says Rachel Li stunningly...
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreaks to Win Fourth US Chess ChampionshipWesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Is a Room Where There Is Less Chess...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026, 27 Miniatures, and an Opening-Theory Claim Without a Single MoveThe September release page is open. ChessBase Magazine, issue 225. Three...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds — The Tie Is a Format Output, Not FormOn the morning of Tuesday, 20 October 2026, the open-section standings of the...
A FIDE President in the Headline, Fritz 20 in the Body: A Content Audit of a Chess 'News' ItemLast week, when I logged this item into my tracker, the first column already...
A Sixty-Minute Course on the Elephant Gambit, Sold Under a Najdorf Headline: Auditing an Opening ProductThe file was titled Najdorf Poisoned Queen Variation. I set the tea aside,...
European Club Cup: What 'Perfect' Actually Means, and a Scotch Video That Stops in 2026I opened the page looking for the crosstable. The headline was clean: at the...
European Club Cup: Two Teams' 'Perfect' Record Is a Scorecard Arithmetic Story, Not a Board StoryThere is a strange moment in a team event, right before the arbiter's signatu...
A NATO Headline, a Najdorf Cargo: Ledger Audit of a Metadata FailureTwo documents sat on the same page and neither recognised the other. The...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian and a Headline About Rachel Li: One File, Two StoriesSixty Minutes of Scandinavian and a Headline About Rachel Li: One File, Two...