Chess
Capablanca's Golden Farewell in Buenos Aires: The Historic 2026 Moment When the Chess Magician Made History One Last Time
Board One, One Scoresheet and a Broken Calendar: Inside the IM Claim of an 11-Year-Old
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, Not One Game Count: What the Najdorf Repertoire Update Review Never Measured
The 11-Year-Old IM Claim: A 2465 Performance, a 23 October 2026 Date, and the Burden of Proof
Caruana and Nakamura in the Headline, a Course in the Body: Chess's Content-Commerce Economy
Capablanca's Golden Farewell in Buenos Aires: The Historic 2026 Moment When the Chess Magician Made History One Last TimeIn the world of chess, there are some names that transcend the boundaries of...
Caruana and Nakamura in the Headline, a Course in the Body: Chess's Content-Commerce EconomyA chess story crossed my screen. The headline carried “Clutch Chess” in Saint...
A 2026 Gold Medal and a 9...a5 Sales Pitch: When the Headline and the Board Stopped Sharing a PageEleven at night, Delhi. My desk held the clock log from the 2026 Delhi...
Board One, One Scoresheet and a Broken Calendar: Inside the IM Claim of an 11-Year-Old23 October, board one, final round. She had black. A gambit line, a pawn up, ...
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, Not One Game Count: What the Najdorf Repertoire Update Review Never MeasuredSixty minutes. Five line clusters. Eleven to twelve minutes each. That is the...
The 11-Year-Old IM Claim: A 2465 Performance, a 23 October 2026 Date, and the Burden of ProofAt a Delhi open I once counted more than 400 boards in one hall. The loudest...
Seven Games, a 2,465 Performance and a Missing Scoresheet: Hand-Drawing the Grid Behind an IM Claim at ElevenFinal round, board one, black pieces. A gambit line whose name the report doe...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The 27 Prague Miniatures Are a Record of Error, Not BrillianceTwenty-seven. In issue 225 of ChessBase Magazine that is the loudest number o...
Updating the Najdorf Repertoire: 60 Minutes, Five Lines, and the Maintenance Economics of Chess Opening TheoryIn a club tournament in Pune I watched a 2026-rated player flip through a thi...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Daniel King's Update and the Silence Nobody WeighedSixty minutes. Five line clusters. One download, in English, and not a single...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Format That Beat Caruana, and the Empty Board of CoverageIn the fourth rapid game of the tiebreak, Wesley So played a move that no...
Maintaining the Najdorf: 60 minutes, five lines, and the question the review didn't askSixty minutes of video, five line-clusters, and just over twelve minutes per...
Wesley So's Fourth US Chess Title: The Tiebreak Arithmetic, and the 89% the Headline Left OutMy notes record nine information points behind this story. One of them concer...